Simulation and thermodynamic modeling of the extraction of tocopherol from a synthetic mixture of tocopherol, squalene and CO2



Título del documento: Simulation and thermodynamic modeling of the extraction of tocopherol from a synthetic mixture of tocopherol, squalene and CO2
Revista: Brazilian journal of chemical engineering
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000308708
ISSN: 0104-6632
Autores: 1

2
Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Tecnologia, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
2Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Quimica, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 17
Número: 4-7
Paginación: 761-770
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés Soybean oil is the most consumed vegetable oil in the world, representing 54% of the total world production. Brazil is the second country in the world that produces and export soybean seeds, almost 20%. One of the most important by-product of the soybean oil is the deodorizer distillate, commonly known as soybean sludge. This residue is rich in many high value compounds as tocopherols, squalene and sterols. Tocopherols are the major components in the deodorized distillated due to their characteristics as an antioxidant agent. So, the objective of this work is to study the concentration of tocopherols presented in this raw material, using the operational conditions obtained from the equilibrium data and using supercritical carbon dioxide as a solvent. The deodorizer distillate is a complex mixture of more than 200 components, so a synthetic mixture was chosen to represent the deodorizer distillate. The synthetic mixture used in this work is composed by tocopherols, fatty acids and squalene. The simulation was carried out using ASPEN+ simulator and the LCVM thermodynamic model was used to correlate the available equilibrium data
Disciplinas: Química
Palabras clave: Ingeniería química,
Aceite de soya,
Destilación,
Tocoferol,
Modelado termodinámico
Keyword: Chemistry,
Chemical engineering,
Soybean oil,
Distillation,
Tocopherol,
Thermodynamic modeling
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