Regeneration of Used Frying Oil. (27th August 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Turan, Semra; Yalcuk, Arda
• Is Part Of: Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society. Volume 90:Number 11(2013)
• Page Start: 1761
• Page End: 1771
• Publication Date: 2013-08-27
• Subjects: Used frying oil -- Active filtration -- Adsorbent -- Packed column -- Polar material -- Free fatty acid; Oils and fats -- Periodicals; Soap -- Periodicals; Fats -- Periodicals; Food-Processing Industry -- Periodicals; Acides gras -- Périodiques; Aliments -- Industrie et commerce -- Périodiques; Huiles et graisses -- Périodiques; Savon -- Périodiques; Oliën; Chemie; Oils and fats; Soap; Periodicals; 547.77
• DOI: 10.1007/s11746-013-2325-x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-021X

Abstract

Abstract: Used frying oils were purified in a packed column using different amounts of silica gel (SG), aluminum oxide (AO), activated charcoal (AC), bentonite (B), magnesol XL (M), calcium carbonate (CC), zeolite (Z), bleaching earth (BE) and/or their binary, triple, and quaternary combinations. SG (15 g) improved total polar material (TPM) by 100 %, conjugated diene (CD) content by 84 %, and p ‐anisidine value (AV) by 104 %, while AO and M improved free fatty acid (FFA) contents by 103 and 105 %, respectively. On the other hand, AC and M bleached the color by 100 and 90 %, respectively. As the amount of adsorbent in the column increased, FFA, CD, AV, and color improved. When the amount of used sunflower oil (UO1) loaded in the column containing SL was increased, FFA, CD, AV and color values increased, while no change was observed in TPM up to 60 g of UO1. Loading UO1 at 150 °C in the column caused the absorbance values at 460 nm to decrease from 0.740 to 0.240, while the amount of adsorbed tocopherol increased compared to UO1 at 25 °C. The increasing number of adsorbents within the column further improved the physicochemical properties of UO1 when it was used 30 g. However, as the amount of different type of used oils (UO2, UO3 and UO4) was increased to 300 g, improvement ratios of all parameters decreased.