Deacidificationof soybean oil by liquid-liquid extraction. / Desacidificação de oleo de soja por extração liquido-liquido.

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2007

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The deacidification process of soybean oil by continuous liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) was evaluated in a perforated rotating discs contactor column (PRDC). It were studied model-systems formed by refined soybean oil with artificial addition of approximately 2% of commercial linoleic acid. Until the moment, the studies of vegetable oils deacidification by LLE accomplished in the Laboratory of Extraction, Applied Thermodynamic and Equilibrium (ExTrAE) had been carried out with oils that presented higher acidity (3 to 8%). The differential of this work is in the fact that the crude soybean oil has low acidity level. Another differential was the use of a temperature (50 °C) higher than the environment and higher water contents in the solvent, allowing to reduce the loss of neutral oil without a significant reduction of the capacity of the solvent to extract the free fatty acids. The experiments were analyzed by response surface methodology, that allowed to evaluate the influence of the water in the ethanol (0 to 12% in mass) and the rotating speed of the discs (50 to 150 rpm) in the acidity transfer and on the loss of neutral oil. The experimental results showed that it is possible to obtain a refined oil with low acidity, below the required by legislation (<0.3%) when anhydrous ethanol is used. However to reach this objective using high contents of water in the solvent, the height of the extraction region of the column must be increased to transfer greater to amount of free fatty acids and so that the loss of neutral oil is low (maximum 3%), less than the value of losses related in literature for the chemical refining.

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deacidification free fatty acids liquid-liquid extraction desacidificação extração liquido-liquido soybean oil oleo de soja

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