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YERIEN, Marcelo N; PARODI, Carlos A  y  CAMPANELLA, Enrique A. Study of Soybean Oil Deodorization using Simulation. Inf. tecnol. [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.4, pp.17-24. ISSN 0718-0764.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-07642010000400004.

This work presents simulation results of a vegetable oil deodorization process. For simulation purposes, the soybean oil was modelled as a five component mixture: triglyceride, fatty acid, sterol, tocopherol and squalene. Two types of flow, cross and countercurrent, were studied. The process temperature, pressure and contact time were changed, the amount of tocopherol, sterol and squalene in the distillate and the presence of trans compounds in the vegetable oil were analyzed. The results were in agreement with experiment and indicate that countercurrent flow is more convenient from the point of view of quality of the distillate and of the oil, as well as of steam consumption.

Palabras clave : process simulation; deodorization; soybean oil; modeling.

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