Crude Vegetable Oil Refinery Cost Calculator
Estimate the break-even RBD price for your refinery. Enter crude feedstock price, yield loss, and processing costs to calculate your all-in refined oil cost.
Crude feedstock price
Refinery parameters
Yield = refined output / crude input. Standard RBD palm: 94–96%. Soy/rapeseed: 92–95%.
Market RBD price (optional)
Enter current market price to see your refinery margin.
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Result is the break-even RBD price given your feedstock cost, yield, and processing overheads.
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How does this break-even compare to current RBD palm prices?
Vesper tracks daily spot prices for crude and refined vegetable oils across EU and global markets. See where your refinery break-even sits versus the actual market.
How the calculation works
How is refinery break-even calculated?
Break-even has two components: feedstock cost per tonne of refined output (crude price divided by yield %), plus the processing cost per tonne. When market RBD prices trade above break-even, the refinery runs profitably. Below it, margins are negative.
What does refining yield represent?
Yield is the ratio of refined output to crude input by weight. A 94% yield means 940 kg of RBD oil from 1,000 kg crude. Losses come from degumming, neutralisation (removes FFAs and phospholipids), bleaching (clay adsorption), and deodorisation. Higher FFA crude has lower effective yield.
What should I include in processing cost?
Processing cost per tonne of refined product should include: chemical costs (caustic, bleaching earth, steam), energy (electricity + steam), labour, maintenance, and overhead allocation. EU refinery cash costs typically run €60–120/t depending on scale and energy prices.
How do I get live crude and RBD prices to feed this calculator?
Vesper tracks daily spot prices for crude and refined vegetable oils across EU and global markets. Start a free trial to access live CPO, crude sunflower, soybean, and rapeseed prices alongside RBD benchmarks.