Development of a mathematical equation to perform carotenoids control in the refining crude palm oil process in Venezuela

• Main Authors: N. Salinas Trejo, E. Pacheco de Delahaye
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2004-12-01
• Series: Grasas y Aceites
• Subjects: carotenoids; palm oil; venezuela
• Online Access: http://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/view/201

The objective of the present study is to control the factors that allow the stability of tcarotenoids during the refining process of crude palm oil in Venezuela. The correlation and interaction that exist among these factors were analyzed, through the experiment design. Two levels and several treatments were managed in order to obtain the desired correlation, which allows a greater domain of the refining process with favorable results in the retention of carotenes in the oil. The factors studied by the implementation of a design of factorial experiment 23 were: % of bleaching earth, temperature, and time in the deodorizer. The resulting individual effects as: Temperature (A), and Time (B), were significant, as well as the interaction temperature-time (AB) for an α of 0.05.