Enrichment of bioactive minor components from CPO and PPMFO by sequential adsorption-desorption technique
The effort to separate or enrich bioactive compounds such as Vitamin E, phytosterols, squalene, and carotenoids from natural resources has been made to fulfil the increasing demands of the global market. Crude palm oil (CPO) which extracts from the palm oil fruit mesocarp fibre, is the product...
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2018
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| Summary: | The effort to separate or enrich bioactive compounds such as Vitamin E, phytosterols,
squalene, and carotenoids from natural resources has been made to fulfil the increasing
demands of the global market. Crude palm oil (CPO) which extracts from the palm oil
fruit mesocarp fibre, is the product of palm oil mill, while, palm-pressed mesocarp fibre
oil (PPMFO) is the residual oil of palm-pressed mesocarp fibre, a solid biomass which
produced after CPO extraction in palm oil mill. Numerous studies reported on the
presence of bioactive compounds as the minor components in CPO and PPMFO. In order
to fulfil the market demand of these minor components, attempts such as supercritical
fluid extraction and molecular distillation were develop to separate the minor
components from plant source. However, limitation are present in current separation
process. Therefore, in this study, interest is focusing on the enrichment efficiency of the
minor components from CPO and PPMFO through a proposed sequential adsorptiondesorption
technique. Initially, static adsorption-desorption test was carry out to evaluate
the adsorption and desorption efficiency using six commercial mesopores adsorbents
which represented different polarity towards the minor components that obtained from
CPO. Non-polar adsorbents (Diaion HP20 and Sepabeads SP850) showed better
adsorption-desorption efficiency than polar adsorbent (silica gel and Florisil) and weak
polar adsorbent (Diaion HP2MG and Amberlite XAD-7HP) due to the similar polarity
between the minor components and adsorbent. Diaion HP20 was selected as the best
adsorbent resulting of the economic price and it can be stored at room temperature
compared with Sepabeads SP850. Then, CPO was adsorbed by Diaion HP20 and placed
into a Soxhlet extraction system to perform sequential adsorption-desorption process
study. Three different organic solvent were used in the sequential adsorption-desorption
process study to investigate the effect of desorption solvent and desorption time towards
the enrichment efficiency of minor components. After obtaining the best process
parameters, the sequential adsorption-desorption process were repeated by subjecting
PPMFO as the feedstock. Under the same process parameters, Vitamin E, phytosterols,
and squalene from CPO were obtained in the 1st fraction using methanol with desorption
time of 4 h that gave enrichment factor (EF) of 3.4, 3.9, and 1.8, respectively, which
slightly higher than those minor components obtained from PPMFO, 1.2, 1.8, and 1.4,respectively. Meanwhile, the carotene obtained from both CPO and PPMFO was
enriched in the 3rd fraction by using n-hexane with an enrichment factor of 1.1 and 1.5,
respectively. In conclusion, the obtained result revealed the efficiency of the proposed
sequential adsorption-desorption technique to enrich the minor components from CPO
and PPMFO. |
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