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| Adekola, Kehinde Adedeji. |
| Coconut oil yield was found to be dependent on the following processing parameters: post heating moisture content, applied pressure, pressure duration, heating time and temperature to which the samples were subjected using hydraulic uniaxial compression. The highest coconut oil yield obtained was 51.9% at optimum condition. This yield corresponds to an expression efficiency of 81.2% of the total coconut oil content which represented 63.9% by weight of the copra (dried coconut flesh). The highest oil yield was obtained at an expression pressure of 25MPa when samples were conditioned to an initial moisture content of 11.3% w. b. and heated at 120ºC for 15min to obtain a post heating moisture of 7.13% w. b. Increases in oil yield were recorded for... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Coconut oil; Processing parameters; Oil yield; Expression efficiency; Optimum. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2977 |
