Title
Phase equilibrium measurements of sacha inchi oil (Plukenetia volubilis) and CO<inf>2</inf> at high pressures
Date Issued
01 August 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Do Prado I.M.
Giufrida W.M.
Alvarez V.H.
Cabral V.F.
Saldaña M.D.A.
Cardozo-Filho L.
University of Alberta
Abstract
New data on phase equilibria for Sacha inchi seed oil in carbon dioxide have been measured using a variable volume cell phase equilibria system at temperatures of 303, 313 and 323 K and at pressures ranging from 4.3 to 27.7 MPa. The CO2 mole fraction varied from 0.7488 to 0.9997. At the studied concentrations, phase transitions of vapor-liquid, liquid-liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid were observed. Sacha inchi oil contains 47% of omega-3 fatty acids, with a ratio of 0.76:1 for omega-6:omega-3, which is good for human health. The Peng-Robinson equation of state was used to describe the experimental data. A qualitative agreement was obtained between experimental and calculated data for the binary system CO2 and Sacha inchi seed oil. © 2011 AOCS.
Start page
1263
End page
1269
Volume
88
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de procesos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-80051543878
Source
JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society
ISSN of the container
0003021X
Source funding
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgment The authors are grateful to Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for financial support of this project and CAPES/PROCAD-NF.
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