Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography

Carotenes and tocopherols provide plenty of health benefits and are important in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Due to the increasing demand for these natural products, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of recovering carotenes and tocopherols from agricultural wastewater...

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Main Author:	Chan, Choi Yee
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	TP1-1185 Chemical technology
Online Access:	http://eprints.usm.my/41672/1/CHAN_CHOI_YEE.pdf
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spelling	my-usm-ep.416722019-04-12T05:26:53Z Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography 2010-04 Chan, Choi Yee TP1-1185 Chemical technology Carotenes and tocopherols provide plenty of health benefits and are important in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Due to the increasing demand for these natural products, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of recovering carotenes and tocopherols from agricultural wastewater abundantly available in Malaysia, which is the palm oil mill effluent (POME). Solvent extraction was used to retrieve oil from POME whereas adsorption chromatography approach was employed to recover carotenes and tocopherols from the extracted oil. 2010-04 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/41672/ http://eprints.usm.my/41672/1/CHAN_CHOI_YEE.pdf application/pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Kejuteraan Kimia
institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
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topic	TP1-1185 Chemical technology
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description	Carotenes and tocopherols provide plenty of health benefits and are important in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Due to the increasing demand for these natural products, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of recovering carotenes and tocopherols from agricultural wastewater abundantly available in Malaysia, which is the palm oil mill effluent (POME). Solvent extraction was used to retrieve oil from POME whereas adsorption chromatography approach was employed to recover carotenes and tocopherols from the extracted oil.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Chan, Choi Yee
author_facet	Chan, Choi Yee
author_sort	Chan, Choi Yee
title	Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_short	Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_full	Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_fullStr	Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_full_unstemmed	Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_sort	recovery of carotenes and tocopherols from palm oil mill effluent via extraction and chromatography
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department	Pusat Pengajian Kejuteraan Kimia
publishDate	2010
url	http://eprints.usm.my/41672/1/CHAN_CHOI_YEE.pdf
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Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography

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