Recuperação de solvente em miscelas oleo de soja/hexano utilizando tecnologia de membranas. / Soja/hexano solvent oil recovery in miscelas using technology of membranes.

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2005

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Soybean oil is industrially obtained by hexane extraction, producing an oil/hexane miscella that is submitted to distillation for solvent recovery. The process with membranes present low energy consumption and have been proposed to replace or complete the traditional operations in removal of solvent. Furthermore, the use of this technology might result in concomitant oil deacidification, as an interesting alternative to the traditional chemical refining. The purposes of this work were to select a polymeric membrane to hexane recovery in soybean oil miscella, evaluate the feed effect phosphorous content on its retention characteristics and optimize the conditions of miscella filtration, aiming at maximum oil retention by the membrane. Four different commercially available plane polymeric membranes were used: polyamide and polysulphone nanofiltration membranes, with molecular cutt off of 300 Da, 500 Da e 1000 Da and polyamide reverse osmosis membrane with nominal retention of 99% NaCl. Filtrations were performed in a stirred dead-end cell, pressurized with N2. The membranes were evaluated according to its hidrophilicity/hidrophobicity properties, hexane permeability and chemical resistance and regarding to its permeate fluxes. Due to its better general performance, the membrane with molecular cutt off of 1000 Da was used in solvent recovery studies. The presence of low phosphorous content (4.3 - 49.6 mg.kg-1) in degummed soybean oil miscella (20% w/w), under operational conditions of 30 bar, 40°C and 300 rpm stirring speed, did not have significative difference (p _ 0.05) on oil retention by the membrane. However it presented a negative effect on permeate flux. The solvent recovery optimization was performed using deodorized soybean oil miscella with addition of 5% oleic acid (25% oil w/w). The pressure (13 to 27 bar) and temperature (21°C to 49°C) effects were evaluated regarding the permeate flux, oil retention and free fatty acids separation, through a complete 22 experimental design with 3 central points and 4 axial points. The higher oil retention (67.12%) occurred under low pressure (15 bar) and high temperature (45°C) conditions. The increasing pressure enhanced the permeate flux and induced reduction in oil and free fatty acids retention by the membrane. Nevertheless, higher temperatures presented positive effect on permeate flux, oil retention and free fatty acids permeation.

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oleo de soja solvent micelas hexano solventes hexano oil of soy micelas

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