In:
Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Wiley, Vol. 27, No. 9 ( 1950-09), p. 336-343
Abstract:
Chemical engineering data are presented to show the pilotplant process development of cottonseed fractionation employing the differential settling principle. The purpose of the process is to produce a cottonseed meal fraction essentially free of pigment glands and hulls, and a second fraction in which the pigment glands are concentrated sufficiently to serve as a raw material if pharmaceutical or other industrial use is developed for the glands or the pigments. The non‐lipids fraction will make available a meal of high nutritive value and a source of industrial protein. Unit operations involved, including machinery and other equipment required, and proposed flow diagrams for commercial application are discussed. In brief the unit operations are as follows: material preparation; disintegration for proper size reduction of cottonseed flakes (either defatted or undefatted) in solvent slurries; separation by tank differential settling or by centrifugal differential settling at 62 times gravity; meal recovery to recover separated fractions by either centrifuging at 1450 times gravity or by pressure filtration; desolventization of solvent‐damp meal; and oil and solvent recovery.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0003-021X
,
1558-9331
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
1950
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2041388-9
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