Separation of monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids from oil seeds of Jatropha curcas

2^nd International Conference and Expo on Ceramics & Composite Materials

July 25-26, 2016 Berlin, Germany

Bashar Mudhaffar Abdullah, Hasniza Zaman Huri and Nany Hairunisa

University Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia
University of Malaya, Malaysia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

Urea complex fractionation is a common method used to separate a mixture of FAs based on the saturation properties FAs. Optimum conditions of the experiment to obtain maximum percentage of MUFA (OA) (56.01%) was observed for sample treated with a urea-to-FAs ratio (w/w) of 3:1 at 10�°C for 16 h. The lowest percentage PUFA (LA) (8.13%) was incorporated into the UCF with a urea-to-FAs ratio (w/w) of 1:1 at 10�°C for 8 h. All of the above mentioned factors have to be controlled to yield a reasonable yield% of product with a desirable purity of FAs.

Biography :

Email: basher.mudhaffar@um.edu.my