Oil extraction from semi-defatted babassu bagasse with ethanol: Liquid-liquid equilibrium and solid-liquid extraction in a single stage

Author(s)

Sampaio Neto, Oscar Zalla ; Goncalves, Daniel ; Bergara, Selma de Freitas ; Caldas Batista, Eduardo Augusto ; de Almeida Meirelles, Antonio Jose

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Journal of Food Engineering; v. 276, JUL 2020.
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Abstract

This study presents liquid-liquid (LLE) and solid-liquid extraction (SLE) data for systems involving babassu oil and ethanol at temperature range from 298.2 to 318.2 K. The babassu oil has a majority composition in saturated triacylglycerols, whereas the semi-defatted babassu bagasse had a moisture content of 6.9% +/- 0.2 and oil mass fraction of 11.45% +/- 0.01. The LLE data were well described by the NRTL thermodynamic model with an overall mean deviation of 0.67% in mass. The good oil solubility in the anhydrous ethanol was evidenced by its total miscibility at 318.2 K. SLE results revealed that the preferential oil retention in the raffinate phase was the determining factor for low oil concentrations in the extract phase. Comparing both LLE and SLE results it was verified that, despite the high oil solubility in ethanol, lower extraction yields were related to lower oil amounts in the extract, indicating the predominance of the solid-solute interaction. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 18/13207-6 - Extraction and computational simulation of ethanolic biodiesel production from peanut oil
• Grantee: Daniel Gonçalves
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 14/21252-0 - Equilibrium and production processes of biofuels and bioproducts
• Grantee: Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 16/10636-8 - From the cell factory to the Biodiesel-Bioethanol integrated biorefinery: a systems approach applied to complex problems in micro and macroscales
• Grantee: Roberto de Campos Giordano
• Support Opportunities: Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) - Thematic Grants