Deacidification and recovery of distillates in the physical refining of edible oils
2008
Prieto, Manuela | Bada, Juan Carlos | León-Camacho, Manuel | Graciani Constante, Enrique
A pilot plant-scale continuous deodorization installation was developed to simultaneously test several technological changes in the classical deodorization process: use of nitrogen as stripping gas, heating of the gas above the liquid oil, and use of shell-and-tube condensers for the recovery of distillates. Deacidification trials were first carried out on mixtures of commercial refined sunflower oil and high-oleic distillates, and subsequently on bleached olive and sunflower oils. The performance of usual working conditions was analyzed: nitrogen mass flow rate, oil temperature and oil mass flow rate. Marked differences were not observed in the results of the final acidity, compositions of free fatty acids and sterols in the deacidified oil. However, the use of shell-and-tube condensers makes it possible to recover liquid distillates in better conditions than in the classical process for their further concentration, while at the same time reducing process pollution.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by National Agricultural Library