Open AccessPHYSIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF DESERT DATE (BALANITE AEGYPTIACA) SEED OIL FOR INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES
Author(s) -
MM Kibiya,
Ishaq Adam
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced academic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2488-9849
DOI - 10.46654/ij.24889849.e61218
Subject(s) - saponification value , saponification , peroxide value , acid value , chemistry , pulp and paper industry , hexane , vegetable oil , solvent , yield (engineering) , chromatography , food science , organic chemistry , materials science , biochemistry , engineering , metallurgy
The desert date seeds were collected from Gomo, washed, decocted, dried, and pulverized. The seed oil was extracted using soxhlet apparatus with n- hexane as solvent. The percentage yield of the extracted oil was found to be 40.5%. While the physicochemical analysis of the seed oil was conducted using standard procedures with the following results; specific density 0.98g/cm3, saponification value 134mgKOH/g, peroxide value 38meq/kg, acid value 12.6mgKOH/g, free fatty acid value 12.7mgKOH/g. These results indicate that Desert date seed oil could be a rich source of oil for industrial and domestic purposes if exploited richly.