A refining method of low-acid-value low-chroma
castor oil comprises the following steps: (1) mixing and dissolving commercially available industrial
castor oil and an extracting agent according to a certain proportion; (2) adding an adsorbent into the solution obtained in the step (1), stirring and adsorbing; (3) filtering to remove the adsorbent; and (4) cooling the filtrate, standing for layering, performing separation to obtain a lower-layer supernatant, and removing the
solvent to obtain a
castor oil finished product with low
chromaticity and low
acid value, wherein the extracting agent comprises any one or a mixture of
petroleum ether, normal
hexane and normal
heptane, and the dosage is 1-8 times of the
mass of the castor oil; the adsorbent is any one or a mixture of activated carbonand decolorizing soil, activated clay, diatomite, aluminum
oxide and
magnesium oxide; the using amount of the
activated carbon is 1-10% of the
mass of the castor oil, and the
mass of the other adsorbents is 1-50% of the mass of the castor oil. The method is simple in process flow and easy for large-scale production, can stably control the
acid value of the finished product to be less than or equalto 0.5 mgKOH / g and the chroma to be less than or equal to Y3#, and the application range of the product in the field of medicines is broadened.