Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide

An innovative technique of Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) process was adopted for the extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp. SFE is the process of separating the extractant from components using supercritical fluids (SCF) with CO2 as the extracting solvent. However, the use of SFE for...

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Main Author:	Chen, Xiao Long
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TP Chemical technology
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53636/25/ChenXiaoLongMFChE2014.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.536362020-08-23T08:52:45Z Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide 2014-07 Chen, Xiao Long TP Chemical technology An innovative technique of Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) process was adopted for the extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp. SFE is the process of separating the extractant from components using supercritical fluids (SCF) with CO2 as the extracting solvent. However, the use of SFE for industrial application is still unpopular and the references of SFE are serious shortage in present. In this study, there was a comparison experiment between SC-CO2 extraction and Soxhlet extraction in order to investigate the better method to extract squalene. Meanwhile, for SC-CO2 extraction, the task was investigated the influence of independent conditions of pressure, temperature and CO2 flow rate on the extraction of squalene and these independent variables were selected as follows: temperature (45-75 ?), pressure (16-30 MPa) and CO2 flow rate (2-5 ml/min). Afterwards, the chemical compositions of palm oil were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Furthermore, the conditions of SC-CO2 extraction for squalene were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) following Box-Behnken Design (BBD) and the result was analyzed by Design Expert software. In the end, the optimum conditions obtained from the investigation were pressure (16 MPa), temperature (45.01 ?) and CO2 flow rate (2 ml/min) and the yield of squalene was 0.506%. Besides, after compared the yield of squalene, the method of SC-CO2 extraction was better than the conventional Soxhlet extraction. 2014-07 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53636/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53636/25/ChenXiaoLongMFChE2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:85647 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Chemical Engineering
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spellingShingle	TP Chemical technology Chen, Xiao Long Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
description	An innovative technique of Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) process was adopted for the extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp. SFE is the process of separating the extractant from components using supercritical fluids (SCF) with CO2 as the extracting solvent. However, the use of SFE for industrial application is still unpopular and the references of SFE are serious shortage in present. In this study, there was a comparison experiment between SC-CO2 extraction and Soxhlet extraction in order to investigate the better method to extract squalene. Meanwhile, for SC-CO2 extraction, the task was investigated the influence of independent conditions of pressure, temperature and CO2 flow rate on the extraction of squalene and these independent variables were selected as follows: temperature (45-75 ?), pressure (16-30 MPa) and CO2 flow rate (2-5 ml/min). Afterwards, the chemical compositions of palm oil were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Furthermore, the conditions of SC-CO2 extraction for squalene were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) following Box-Behnken Design (BBD) and the result was analyzed by Design Expert software. In the end, the optimum conditions obtained from the investigation were pressure (16 MPa), temperature (45.01 ?) and CO2 flow rate (2 ml/min) and the yield of squalene was 0.506%. Besides, after compared the yield of squalene, the method of SC-CO2 extraction was better than the conventional Soxhlet extraction.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Chen, Xiao Long
author_facet	Chen, Xiao Long
author_sort	Chen, Xiao Long
title	Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
title_short	Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
title_full	Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
title_fullStr	Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
title_full_unstemmed	Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
title_sort	extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Chemical Engineering
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53636/25/ChenXiaoLongMFChE2014.pdf
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Extraction of squalene from palm oil mesocarp using supercritical carbon dioxide

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