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Lec1 Unit1
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Lec1 Unit1
This structural formula shows that fats and oils contain three ester
functional groups.
Fats and oils are esters of the tri-alcohol, glycerol (or glycerine). Therefore,
fats and oils are commonly called triglycerides, although a more accurate
name is triacylglycerols.
In the fatty acids, Ra, Rb, and Rc, represent groups of carbon and hydrogen
atoms in which the carbon atoms are attached to each other in an
unbranched chain.
Chemically, fats and oils are called “triglycerides.” They
are esters of glycerol, with a varying blend of fatty acids.
For high oil content seeds, such as cottonseeds and safflower seed, usually
both expression and extraction are utilized in the recovery systems for
higher yields.
1) Hydraulic pressing:
Batch pressing was the earliest commercial method of oil
extraction.
Hydraulic equipment replaced the mechanical operations and
the method became known as hydraulic pressing.
In open presses, oilseed meals were wrapped in cloths and
placed between plates, which were then gradually compressed
to squeeze the oil from the seeds.
Box-type presses were most often used for cottonseed, and this
method was fairly labor intensive.
2) Screw Pressing
With this system, pressure is gradually applied to the flakes as
a screw conveys them from the feed end to the discharge end of
the expeller barrel.
About 3–4% oil remains in the cake that results from screw
pressing.
this type of presses exert 680–1089 atm (5–8 tons per square
inch) pressure on the flakes.
3) Direct Solvent
This process is based on the use of a nonpolar solvent, specifically hexane,
to dissolve the oil without removing proteins and other compounds.
The flakes are mixed with hexane in a batch or continuous operation.
The resulting oil-solvent micelle and the residual meal are heated to
evaporate the solvent, which is collected and reused. Solvent extraction
yields about 11.5% more oil than does the screw-press method, and 1% or
less oil remains in the meal.
4) Prepress Solvent Extraction
With prepress solvent extraction, cottonseeds are pressed to remove most of
the oil and then the oil remaining in the press-cake is extracted with
solvent. This solvent extraction operates on a reduced volume of feed stock
(i.e., press-cake, as opposed to full-fat flakes) and, therefore, requires a
modest size extractor with modest amounts of desolventizer and solvent.
METHODS OF EXTRACTING VEGETABLE OILS