Processo de adsorção de pigmentos de oleo vegetal com argilas esmectiticas acido-ativadas

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2006

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Smectite clays from the Araripe sedimentary basin were employed as bleaching agents of soy bean oil and compared with adsorption capacity of the imported reference-clay (Tonsil Supreme 180 FF). The system was tested with chlorophyllous pigments and carotenoids. The smectite was mainly composed by a coarse detrital fraction of quartz, calcite and gypsum. To develop its adsorption capacity it was previously activated with acid (HCl). The parameters of the process indicated that the bleaching property of the activated clay in terms of chlorophyll-a representing an adsorption capacity of qm = 144.93 mg.g-1, which had an order magnitude near to that of Tonsil, qm = 166.67 mg.g-1. The adsorption parameters of the equilibrium isotherms for the two cases were KAclay = 23.00 cm3.g-1 KAtonsil = 20.00 cm3.g-1. From the experimental kinetic evaluations, based on a Langmuir-Freundlich model, the estimated kinetic adsorption constants for the clay and the Tonsil were kaAclay = 0.2488 ± 0.0913 kaAtonsil = 0.0839 ± 0.0219 respectively. The number of sites responsible for the pigments adsorption identified on the clay surface, were of the order of 183.90 x 1020 sites/g of clay. The acidified clay presented similar adsorptive properties to the imported product, showing that it may be employed to bleaching soy bean oil

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argila esmectita bleaching clay troca ionica smectite ionic-exchange acid activation adsorption adsorção

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