Lead Salt-Ether Seperation of Fatty Acids from Palm Oil

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/msri/030110

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This study resulted from the researcher’s awareness of scarcity of fatty acids in chemical laboratories and industries in Nigeria despite the fact that we have many Agricultural products containing these acids, for example, palm oil in which Nigeria is one of the leading producers in the world before the oil boom can serve as a source of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. The oil was bleached using activated charcoal; the bleached oil was saponified and acidified to obtain the mixture of fatty acids. Out of 100g, 79g of bleached oil was obtained. The unsaturated fatty acids collected from 3g of mixture was 1.56g (52.0%) and that of saturated was 1.34g (44.6%). This shows that palm oil can serve as a drying as well as non-drying oils.

Agricultural products; fatty acids; palm oil and lead salt-ether