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Enzymatic transesterification of rapeseed oil and lauric acid in a continuous reactor
Author(s) -
Forssell P.,
Parovuori P.,
Linko P.,
Poutanen K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02632150
Subject(s) - transesterification , lauric acid , rapeseed , chemistry , yield (engineering) , substrate (aquarium) , chromatography , solvent , residence time (fluid dynamics) , organic chemistry , materials science , catalysis , food science , fatty acid , biology , geotechnical engineering , engineering , metallurgy , ecology
The optimum conditions for enzymatic transesterification of rapeseed oil and lauric acid in a fixed‐bed reactor were studied. No solvent was used in the reaction mixture. A small amount of water was dissolved in the substrate mixture to maintain the activity of the enzyme at as high a level as possible. For maximum yield, the transesterification was performed with a residence time of about 20 min at a water content in the range of 0.1 to 0.2% and at the lowest possible temperature.
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