Free fatty acid separation from vegetable oil deodorizer distillate using molecular distillation process

Vegetable Oil Deodorizer Distillate: A Rich Source of the Natural Bioactive Components

“…After silylation, the components were separated by GC with mass spectrometry MS for final identification. The compounds separated were tocopherols, sterols, fatty acids and glycerol esters 1 30 33 , enzymatic reaction 34 and molecular distillation 35,36 .…”

Potential Applications of Green Technologies in Olive Oil Industry

“…Another advantage of the process is the absence of solvents. Therefore, molecular distillation is considered as a promising method in the separation, purification and concentration of natural products (Martins et al, 2006).…”

“…Martins et al (2006) separated FFAs from soybean oil deodorizer distillate to obtain a tocopherol concentrate, which contained only 6.4% of FFA and 18.3% of tocopherols (from a raw material containing 57.8% of FFA and 8.97% of tocopherols.) The specific processing conditions were an evaporator temperature of 160 °C and a feed flow rate of 10.4 gmin −1 .…”

A versatile apparatus for the bench scale bleaching and deodorsation of vegetable oils

“…Deodorisation, the last stage of bench scale vegetable oil refining, is a critical operation from the technical point of view. On a laboratory scale it can performed by a short path distillation unit, which enables also physical refining (physical deacidification) allowing the removal of free fatty acids, odour, and flavour components in one step (Lutišan & Cvengroš 1995;Martins et al 2006). Therefore, caustic neutralisation can be omitted when free fatty acids and carbonyl compounds are eliminated during the last refining stage (Čmolík & Pokorný 2000).…”