Showing papers on "Soybean oil published in 2008"

Oleic acid content is responsible for the reduction in blood pressure induced by olive oil

Abstract: Numerous studies have shown that high olive oil intake reduces blood pressure (BP). These positive effects of olive oil have frequently been ascribed to its minor components, such as α-tocopherol, polyphenols, and other phenolic compounds that are not present in other oils. However, in this study we demonstrate that the hypotensive effect of olive oil is caused by its high oleic acid (OA) content (≈70–80%). We propose that olive oil intake increases OA levels in membranes, which regulates membrane lipid structure (HII phase propensity) in such a way as to control G protein-mediated signaling, causing a reduction in BP. This effect is in part caused by its regulatory action on G protein-associated cascades that regulate adenylyl cyclase and phospholipase C. In turn, the OA analogues, elaidic and stearic acids, had no hypotensive activity, indicating that the molecular mechanisms that link membrane lipid structure and BP regulation are very specific. Similarly, soybean oil (with low OA content) did not reduce BP. This study demonstrates that olive oil induces its hypotensive effects through the action of OA.

Active phase of calcium oxide used as solid base catalyst for transesterification of soybean oil with refluxing methanol

Abstract: For developing a process of biodiesel production with environmental benignity, much interest has been focused on solid base catalysts such as calcium oxide for transesterification of vegetable oils with methanol. In this paper, the active phase of calcium oxide was investigated by characterizing the catalyst collected after achieving the conversion of edible soybean oil into its methyl ester at reflux of methanol in a glass batch reactor. Calcium oxide combined with the by-produced glycerol, so that calcium diglyceroxide was a major constituent of the collected catalyst. The absence of calcium methoxide was clear from the spectrum of solid-state 13C-NMR. The chemical change of calcium oxide was not observed, when the yield of FAME reached 30%. The collected catalyst was not as active as the fresh one (calcium oxide), but was reused without any deactivation. In order to identify the active phase of the collected catalyst, we prepared calcium diglyceroxide by immersion of calcium oxide with refluxing methanol in the presence of glycerol. Calcium diglyceroxide prepared as the reference sample was as active as the collected catalyst in the transesterification, and was tolerant to air-exposure.

A continuous catalytic system for biodiesel production

Abstract: A novel continuous fixed bed reactor process has been developed for the production of biodiesel using a metal oxide-based catalyst. Porous zirconia, titania and alumina micro-particulate heterogeneous catalysts are shown to be capable of continuous rapid esterification and transesterfication reactions under high pressure (ca. 2500 psi) and elevated temperature (300–450 °C). The continuous transesterification of triglycerides and simultaneous esterification of free fatty acids with residence times as low as 5.4 s is described. Biodiesel produced from soybean oil, acidulated soapstock, tall oil, algae oil, and corn oil with different alcohols to make different alkyl esters using this new process pass all current ASTM testing specifications. Furthermore, the economics of this novel process is much more cost competitive due to the use of inexpensive lipid feedstocks that often contain high levels of free fatty acids. The process has been shown to easily scale up a factor of 49 for more than 115 h of continuous operation without loss of conversion efficiency. The increased use of biodiesel world-wide could help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that are linked to the progression of global warming.

Lubricant base stock potential of chemically modified vegetable oils.

Abstract: The environment must be protected against pollution caused by lubricants based on petroleum oils. The pollution problem is so severe that approximately 50% of all lubricants sold worldwide end up in the environment via volatility, spills, or total loss applications. This threat to the environment can be avoided by either preventing undesirable losses, reclaiming and recycling mineral oil lubricants, or using environmentally friendly lubricants. Vegetable oils are recognized as rapidly biodegradable and are thus promising candidates as base fluids in environment friendly lubricants. Lubricants based on vegetable oils display excellent tribological properties, high viscosity indices, and flash points. To compete with mineral-oil-based lubricants, some of their inherent disadvantages, such as poor oxidation and low-temperature stability, must be corrected. One way to address these problems is chemical modification of vegetable oils at the sites of unsaturation. After a one-step chemical modification, the chemically modified soybean oil derivatives were studied for thermo-oxidative stability using pressurized differential scanning calorimetry and a thin-film micro-oxidation test, low-temperature fluid properties using pour-point measurements, and friction-wear properties using four-ball and ball-on-disk configurations. The lubricants formulated with chemically modified soybean oil derivatives exhibit superior low-temperature flow properties, improved thermo-oxidative stability, and better friction and wear properties. The chemically modified soybean oil derivatives having diester substitution at the sites of unsaturation have potential in the formulation of industrial lubricants.

High-purity fatty acid methyl ester production from canola, soybean, palm, and yellow grease lipids by means of a membrane reactor

Abstract: High-purity fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) was produced from different lipids, such as soybean oil, canola oil, a hydrogenated palm oil/palm oil blend, yellow grease, and brown grease, combined with methanol using a continuous membrane reactor. The membrane reactor combines reaction and separation in a single unit, provides continuous mixing of raw materials, and maintains a high molar ratio of methanol to lipid in the reaction loop while maintaining two phases during the reaction. It was demonstrated that the membrane reactor can be operated using a very broad range of feedstocks at highly similar operating conditions to produce FAME. The total glycerine and free glycerine contents of the FAME produced were below the ASTM D6751 standard after a single reaction step. Under essentially the same reaction conditions, a conventional batch reaction was not able to achieve the same degree of FAME purity. The effect of the fatty acid composition of the lipid feedstocks on the FAME purity was also shown. It was demonstrated that, due to the fatty acid composition, FAME from virgin soybean oil and virgin canola oil was produced in the membrane reactor within ASTM specifications even without a water washing step.

Calcium Ethoxide as a Solid Base Catalyst for the Transesterification of Soybean Oil to Biodiesel

Abstract: In this work, calcium ethoxide is proposed as a catalyst for the transesterification of soybean oil to biodiesel with methanol and ethanol. First, calcium ethoxide was synthesized through a calcium reaction with ethanol. Then, its physical and chemical characteristics were determined using instrumental methods such as Brunauer−Emmett−Teller surface area measurements, scanning electron micrographs, and particle size distribution measurements. The effects of the mass ratio of catalyst to oil, the molar ratio of methanol to oil, and the reaction temperature were studied to optimize the reaction conditions. The experimental results showed that the optimum conditions are a 12:1 molar ratio of methanol to oil, the addition of 3% Ca(OCH2CH3)2 catalyst, and a 65 °C reaction temperature. A 95.0% biodiesel yield was obtained within 1.5 h in these conditions, and the activation energy was 54 149 J/mol. It also indicated that the catalysis performance of calcium ethoxide is better than that of CaO. Besides, a 91.8% b...

Transesterification of Soybean Oil Using Heterogeneous Catalysts

Abstract: Biodiesel is a biodegradable, nontoxic, and clean-burning fuel that can be made from biorenewable fats and oils. At present, biodiesel is primarily produced in batch reactors, where the separation of catalysts, glycerol, and biodiesel from the reactor is onerous. Solid catalysts can be used to allay this separation problem. In the present study, seven different solid catalysts (metal oxides), MgO, CaO, PbO, PbO2, Pb3O4, Tl2O3, and ZnO, with different Brunauer−Emmett−Teller (BET) surface area, acidity/basicity, and the acid/base site strength were selected for the transesterification. Biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters, FAMEs) yields were determined for these catalysts at three different temperatures (75, 150, and 225 °C) and high pressure. It was observed that more than 89% yield of biodiesel was achieved with PbO and PbO2 solid catalysts.

Enzyme-Assisted Aqueous Extraction of Oil and Protein from Soybeans and Cream De-emulsification

Abstract: The effects of two commercial endoproteases (Protex 6L and Protex 7L, Genencor Division of Danisco, Rochester, NY, USA) on the oil and protein extraction yields from extruded soybean flakes during enzyme-assisted aqueous extraction processing (EAEP) were evaluated. Oil and protein were distributed in three fractions generated by the EAEP: cream + free oil, skim and insolubles. Protex 6L was more effective for extracting free oil, protein and total solids than Protex 7L. Oil and protein extraction yields of 96 and 85%, respectively, were obtained using 0.5% Protex 6L. Enzymatic and pH treatments were evaluated to de-emulsify the oil-rich cream. Cream de-emulsification generated three fractions: free oil, an intermediate residual cream layer and an oil-lean second skim. Total cream de-emulsification was obtained when using 2.5% Protex 6L and pH 4.5. The extrusion treatment was particularly important for reducing trypsin inhibitor activity (TIA) in the protein-rich skim fraction. TIA reductions of 69 and 45% were obtained for EAEP skim (the predominant protein fraction) from extruded flakes and ground flakes, respectively. Protex 6L gave higher degrees of protein hydrolysis (most of the polypeptides being between 1,000 and 10,000 Da) than Protex 7L. Raffinose was not detected in the skim, while stachyose was eliminated by α-galactosidase treatment.

Multivariate Calibration by Variable Selection for Blends of Raw Soybean Oil/Biodiesel from Different Sources Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) Spectra Data

Abstract: The partial least-squares (PLS) calibration method as a chemometric tool was used to develop a calibration model using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) spectra data of biodiesel samples from different sources, such as cotton, castor, and palm, which were mixed with raw soybean oil to simulate an adulteration system. The PLS calibration method was applied with and without variable selection to quantify the amount of raw soybean oil present in these samples. Classic methods of variable selection, such as forward and stepwise, were applied to all origins together and each one separately. Variable selection improves not only the stability of the model to the colinearity in multivariate spectra but also the interpretability of the relationship between the model and the sample composition, which means that it becomes easier to determine and quantify the amount of raw soybean oil mixed in each biodiesel source.

Studies on the Fatty Acid Composition of Edible Oil

Abstract: Fatty acid analysis of the five types of locally consumed edible oils (n = 22) was carried out using a Gas Chromatograph (G.C) equipped with a Flame Ionization Detector (FID) and stainless steel packed column. The results showed that sunflower oil contained the highest percentage of long chain mono and polyunsaturated fatty acids (91.49 ± 1.91 %) compared to soybean oil (81.14 ± 1.49 %), mustard oil (86.80 ± 3.07 %), palm oil (53.30 ± 0.36 %) and coconut oil (7.12 ± 0.51 %). Two varieties of mustard oil, low erucic (= 5 %, n=3) and high erucic acid ( >14 %, n=2) and two varieties of sunflower oil, high linoleic-low oleic (61-66 % & 22-27 %, n=2) and low linoleic- high oleic (29-38 % and 53-63 %, n =3) were found. Sunflower oil with the highest percentage of mono and polyunsaturated fatty acids especially the high linoleic- low oleic variety appeared to be superior and most suitable edible oil for mass consumption. Key words: Fatty acid, Gas chomatograph, Sunflower oil, Soybean oil, Mustard oil, Palm oil, Coconut oil. Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res. 42(3), 311-316, 2007

Effect of dietary soybean oil and soybean protein concentration on the concentration of digestible amino acids in soybean products fed to growing pigs.

Abstract: An experiment was conducted to mea- sure the effect of adding soybean oil to soybean meal (SBM) and soy protein concentrate (SPC) on appar- ent (AID) and standardized (SID) ileal digestibility of CP and AA by growing pigs. A second objective was to compare AID and SID of AA in a new high-protein va- riety of full fat soybeans (FFSB) to values obtained in other soybean products. Commercial sources of FFSB (FFSB-CV), SBM, and SPC, and of a new high-protein variety of FFSB (FFSB-HP) were used in the experi- ment. Four diets were prepared using each soybean product as the sole source of CP and AA in 1 diet. Two additional diets were formulated by adding soybean oil (7.55 and 7.35%, respectively) to the diets containing SBM and SPC. A nitrogen-free diet was also used to measure basal endogenous losses of CP and AA. The 2 sources of FFSB were extruded at 150°C before being used in the experiment. Seven growing barrows (initial BW = 26.2 kg) were prepared with a T-cannula in the distal ileum and allotted to a 7 × 7 Latin square design. Ileal digesta were collected from the pigs on d 6 and 7 of each period. All digesta samples were lyophilized and analyzed for DM, CP, AA, and chromium, and val- ues for AID and SID of CP and AA were calculated. The addition of oil improved (P < 0.05) the SID of most in- dispensable AA in SBM and SPC. The SID for 6 of the indispensable AA in FFSB-HP were greater (P < 0.05) than in FFSB-CV, and the SID for all indispensable AA except Met was greater (P < 0.05) in FFSB-HP than in SBM. However, the SID for most AA in FFSB-HP was similar to SBM with oil and SPC, but these values were lower (P < 0.05) than in SPC with oil. In conclu- sion, the addition of oil improved the SID of most AA in SBM and SPC fed to growing pigs, and the SID of AA in FFSB-HP were greater than in SBM and similar to the SID of AA in SBM with oil and in SPC.

Antioxidants for improving storage stability of biodiesel

Abstract: Biodiesel is an alternative diesel fuel made from vegetable oil or animal fat that may be burned in a compres sion-ignition (diesel) engine. The chemical nature of biodiesel makes it more susceptible to oxidation or autoxidation during long-term storage than conventional petroleum-based diesel (petrodiesel). Oxidative degradation during storage can compromise fuel quality with respect to effects on kinematic viscosity, acid value (number), cetane number, total ester content, and formation of hydroperoxides, soluble polymers, and other secondary products. One promising method of increasing the resistance to oxidation of biodiesel is to add oxidation inhibitors (antioxidants). This review summarizes relevant research progress in the development of effective antioxidants for treating biodiesel. Performance of antioxidants evaluated for treating biodiesel derived from soybean oil, rapeseed (low-erucic) oil, used cooking oil, tallow (beef), and palm oil feedstocks is discussed. Published in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Studies on the kinetics of in situ epoxidation of vegetable oils

Abstract: In the present work, the kinetics of the epoxidation of soybean oil (SBO) by peroxyacetic acid (PAA) generated in situ in the presence of sulfuric acid as the catalyst was studied at various temperatures (45, 65 and 75 °C). It was found that epoxidation with almost complete conversion of unsaturated carbon and negligible oxirane cleavage can be attained by the in situ technique. The rate constant for epoxidation of SBO was found to be of the order of 10 -6 mol -1 s -1 and the activation energy of epoxidation is 43.11 kJ/mol. Some thermodynamic parameters: enthalpy, entropy and free activation energy of 40.63 kJ/mol, -208.80 J/mol and 102.88 kJ/mol, respectively, were obtained for the epoxidation of SBO. The kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of epoxidation obtained from this study indicate that an increase in the process temperature would increase the rate of epoxide formation. The epoxidation of corn oil and sunflower oil were also investigated under the same conditions. The results show that the reaction rate is in the order of soybean oil > corn oil > sunflower oil.

Antioxidant Activity and Chemical Characterization of Essential Oil of Bunium persicum

Abstract: The search for natural antioxidants, especially of plant origin, has notably increased in recent years. Bunium persicum Boiss. is an economically important medicinal plant growing wild in the dry temperature regions in Iran. In this study, chemical constituents of the essential oil of the seed from Bunium persicum Boiss. have been studied by GC/MS technique. The major components were caryophyllene (27.81%), gamma-terpinene (15.19%), cuminyl acetate (14.67%). Individual antioxidant assays such as, DPPH* scavenging activity and beta-carotene bleaching have been carried out. In DPPH* system, the EC(50) value of essential oil was determined as 0.88 mg/mL. In beta-carotene bleaching antioxidant activity of essential oil (0.45%) was almost equal to BHT at 0.01%. In addition, the antioxidant activity of the essential oil was evaluated in crude soybean oil by monitoring peroxide and thiobarbituric acid values of the oil substrate. The results showed that the Bunium persicum essential oil (BPEO) was able to reduce the oxidation rate of the soybean oil in the accelerated condition at 60 degrees C (oven test). The essential oil at 0.06% showed the same effect of BHA at 0.02%. Hence, BPEO could be used as an additive in food after screening.

Soybeans : chemistry, production, processing, and utilization

Abstract: The History of Soybeans Breeding, Genetics, and Production of Soybeans Harvesting, Storing, and Post-harvest Management of Soybeans Effect of Pests and Diseases on Soybean Quality Economics of Soybean Production, Marketing, and Utilization Measurement and Maintenance of Soybean Quality Lipids Soybean Proteins Soybean Carbohydrates Minor Constituents and Phytochemicals of Soybeans Oil Recovery from Soybeans Soybean Oil Purification Soybean Oil Modification Food Uses of Whole Soybeans Food Uses for Soybean Oil and Alternatives to Trans Fatty Acids in Foods Bioenergy and Biofuels from Soybeans Biobased Products from Soybeans Nutritional Properties and Feeding Values of Soybeans and their Coproducts Soy Protein Products, Processing, and Utilization Human Nutrition Value of Soybean Oil and Soy Protein Soybean Production and Processing in Brazil

Production of Sophorolipid Biosurfactant by Pichia anomala

Abstract: Biosurfactant production by Pichia anomala PY1, a thermotorelant strain isolated from fermented food, was examined as grown in media containing various carbon and nitrogen sources. The optimal conditions for biosurfactant production included 4% soybean oil as carbon source at pH 5.5 at 30 °C for 7 d. Under these conditions, the surface tension of the medium decreased to 28 mN/m with oil displacement measured at 69.43 cm2. Comparative studies of biosurfactant production in media containing glucose or soybean oil were performed. The biosurfactants obtained were isolated and purified by chromatographic methods. The molecular weights of samples were further investigated by mass spectrometry. In medium containing glucose, biosurfactants of molecular weights of 675, 691, and 707 were obtained, while those isolated from medium containing soybean oil were of molecular weights of 658, 675, and 691. These results reveal that sophorolipid compounds containing fatty acids of C20 and C18:1 were produced from both media.