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CHEM 005 – Industrial Chemistry for ChE, 1st Semester, AY 2019-2020

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Experiment 2: Extraction and Refining of Coconut Oil
Aballa, J.E., Calara, K.C., Carreon, F., Cahigas, M.A., Caseria, Y.J.

6. Fill the centrifuge tube with the

Aballa, Jane Eilyza G., Chemical Engineering Department, coconut milk and centrifuge it at a
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highest speed for 5 minutes.
Calara, Kim Carlo L., Chemical Engineering Department, 7. Check for a clear separation
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between the oil and the water. If
Carreon, Faye Z., Chemical Engineering Department, separation doesn’t occur repeat the
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centrifugation until separation is
Cahigas, Mary Ann, Chemical Engineering Department, seen.
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8. Carefully separate the oil and water
Caseria, Yzrha Joy, Chemical Engineering Department, using pipette.
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9. Store the oil in a vial and analyze its
smell and visual properties.
I. Objectives
II. Intended Learning Outcomes

III. Discussion: VI. DATA AND RESULTS

Weight of the shredded coconut meat:
IV. Materials 850.51 g
 Beaker
 Cheesecloth Weight of the extracted coconut milk:
 Centrifuge tube 504.96 g
 Centrifuge
 Vials Weight of oil obtained:
 Shredded coconut meat 37.19 g of oil per 98.4 g of coconut milk
 Water
Percentage oil in shredded coconut meat:
V. Procedure 22.44%
1. Weight the shredded coconut milk
Percentage oil in extracted coconut milk:
in a top loading balance.
2. Extract the coconut milk from 37.79%
shredded coconut meat using
cheesecloth. Most of the available VCOs in the market is
3. Set aside in the beaker the extracted clear. In contrast, the VCO we obtained is pure
coconut milk. white. Fortunately, in terms of smell, they are
4. Extract again the shredded coconut pretty much the same.
milk this time with the aid of water.
5. Mix the extracted coconut milk with
the previously extracted coconut
milk.
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VII. Questions have that clear type of color compare to

1. Discuss other techniques employed in the commercial coconut oil.
extraction of virgin coconut oil.

-Cold extraction is the term used for the

extraction coconut oil from coconut milk by
breaking the emulsion without heating In the
first stage cream is separated by the action of
gravitational force resulting in two phases,
the top phase with the creamy layer and the
down phase with aqueous layer. The second
stage is flocculation and clustering in which
the oil phase moves as a group and which
does not involve the rupture of the interfacial
film that normally surrounds. The third phase
is most critical phase in the destabilization of
coconut milk, coalescence in this stage the
interfacial areas is ruptured and reduce that
help to joined oil globules together.
-The extraction of VCO was studied by using
various centrifugation speeds, temperature
and time intervals. The results showed that IX. Documentation
the yield of VCO was 13.53% at 12000 rpm, at
120 minutes The highest yield of VCO was
13.80% at centrifugation temperature of
40°C. studied the potential of the
centrifugation in demulsification of coconut
milk that was collected from local market and
centrifuge at different speed from 6000 to
12000 rpm for time varied from 30 to 105
min, resulting that enhanced the
demulsification of coconut milk in a very
short time compare to the fermentation
method and provide higher yield

VIII. Conclusions
Coconut oil is special with 12-14 carbon
acid and about 18 percent was use in the
soap industry including coconut oil were
slightly hydrogenated to make them
suitable for soap making. Coconut oil
was use as fatty alcohols, soap and Shredded Coconut
detergent. In line with this conclusion,
we all know that coconut oil is dense and
base from what we extracted it does not
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Extraction of Coconut Milk

Separating the coconut oil from water by using a

dropper

Final Product

filling the centrifuge tube with coconut milk