Recovery of triglycerides from used frying oil by extraction with liquid and supercritical ethane

作者：Rincon Jesusa^*; Martinez Fabiola; Rodriguez Luis; Ancillo Virginia

来源：Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2011, 56(1): 72-79.

DOI：10.1016/j.supflu.2010.11.010

• Supercritical extraction
• Supercritical ethane
• Used frying oil
• Triglycerides

The extraction of triglycerides from used frying oil with liquid and supercritical ethane has been studied in a semibatch system at different temperatures (25-80 degrees C) and pressures (150-250 kg/cm(2)). It has been found that isobaric decreases of temperature and isothermal increases of pressure lead to both increasing extraction yields and decreasing separation efficiencies. Lipid fractions recovered in the high density region had acceptable concentrations of polar compounds.
Results with ethane have been compared to those reported for CO(2) in earlier works. At similar reduced densities of the solvents, oil solubility in ethane was higher than in CO(2), being the separation efficiency of polar fractions slightly better when using ethane.
The extraction process was further analyzed in a packed countercurrent column. At optimum conditions (250 kg/cm(2), 25 degrees C, and solvent-to-oil ratio 45 g:g) about 85% of the triglycerides were recovered, being 11.2% the polar content of the triglyceride fraction recovered.

• 出版日期2011-2