Effects of Extraction Solvents on Oil Yield from <i>Persea Americana </i>Seed and Its Characterization

Adeloye Olalekan Michael

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Effects of Extraction Solvents on Oil Yield from Persea Americana Seed and Its Characterization

Adeloye Olalekan Michael

Published in American Journal of Chemical Engineering (Volume 10, Issue 4)

Received: 12 July 2022 Accepted: 27 July 2022 Published: 4 August 2022

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Abstract

This study focused on the extraction yield of oil from Persea Americana seed using three different extraction solvents of hexane, diethylether and chloroform respectively. The Persea Americana seeds were prepared prior to extraction process thereby removing dirts and the seeds were washed, dried, crushed and ground to 600µm particle size thereby increasing surface area for oil extraction operational rate of Persea Americana seeds. The ground Persea Americana seeds were soaked for a period of 14 hours to 70 hours under ambient operating conditions. Soxhlet extractor was used in the extraction process and extracted oil was separated from solvent via distillation process. The results showed that the optimum conditions for the yield of oil was obtained at 70 hours for hexane, diethylether and chloroform extraction solvents respectively but diethylether extraction solvent showed higher percentage yield of oil in comparison with other extraction solvents. Characterization of the extracted oil from Persea Americana seeds were performed and the results depicted extracted oil physiochemical properties such as refractive index, P^H value, density, specific gravity, iodine value, viscosity, saponification value etc and the results of these parameters are in tandem with other previous studies of Persea Americana seeds and within the range of acceptable value of European and United States of America standards.

Published in	American Journal of Chemical Engineering (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajche.20221004.12
Page(s)	72-78
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Soxhlet Extraction, Persea Americana Seed, Hexane, Diethyl-Ether, Chloroform, Characterization

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Adeloye Olalekan Michael. (2022). Effects of Extraction Solvents on Oil Yield from Persea Americana Seed and Its Characterization. American Journal of Chemical Engineering, 10(4), 72-78. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajche.20221004.12

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Adeloye Olalekan Michael. Effects of Extraction Solvents on Oil Yield from Persea Americana Seed and Its Characterization. Am J Chem Eng. 2022;10(4):72-78. doi: 10.11648/j.ajche.20221004.12

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Adeloye Olalekan Michael

Department of Chemical/Petrochemical Engineering, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

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