Refino a seco de oleo de soja

Waldomiro Filleti Junior

The current chemical refining process (or conventional) of vegetable oils generates a great amount of liquid waste water, due to the usage of water in the process, mainly in the desacidification step, where the ftee fatty acids are neutralized through the addition of an aqueous solution ofNaOH, transforming these compounds in soaps (soapstock), oi! insoluble. These are removed by centrifugation, followed by one or two hot water washing steps, overloading and making the waste water treatment costly or leading to severe environment damages, in case the treatment is not appropriate. The modification of this step for an operation that eliminates the use of an aqueous solution and the washing steps would be of great interest, not only on the wastewater point of view but also by the simplification of process and needed equipment. Reducing, as a consequence, the operation and investment costs. In this essay was used, in substitution of the alkali solution, a 10 % KOH impregnated silicate. Which was directly added to the degummed soybean oi! (FFA=O.7%). In the first part of this work the utilization conditions of KOH impregnated silicates, and mixtures of them with bleaching clays was studied, including a preliminary study of the filtration step. The optimum process conditions were determined by the response surface analysis statistic methodology. The second part of this work aims the process scale up in pilot plant, including the deodorization of the obtained oil and its comparison with refined commercial soybean oil. The effects of temperature, alkali concentration and contact time were determined following a 33 experimental design with surface response analysis. The process optimization indicates that it is possible to obtain neutral oils with 0.09% ofresidual acidity when treated with 7,5% silica (10% impregnated) for 15 minutes at 70°C

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