Palm pressed fiber (PPF) is a by-product from oil extraction of oil palm fruits. It has unique characteristics resulting from the combination of palm mesocarp fiber, kernel shell and crushed kernel. The present study on different extraction methods for PPF indicated that conventional hexane cold extraction would be the more preferable method compared to soxhlet and reflux method due to the yiel...

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In this work, different extraction techniques (soxhlet extraction, hydrodistillation, subcritical water and supercritical carbon dioxide followed by conventional extraction) were employed for the isolation of bioactive compounds from areal parts industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.). The process parameters, time temperature pressure, on yield content examined. As plant material after still conta...

Extraction of oil from the seed of Blighia unijugata gave a yield of 50.82 ± 1.20% using hexane in a soxhlet extractor. The iodine and saponification values were 67.60 ± 0.80 g iodine/100 g and 239.20 ± 1.00 mg KOH/g respectively with C18:1 being the dominant fatty acid. Unsaturated methyl esters of Blighia unijugata which had been previously subjected to urea adduct complexation was used to sy...

The aim was to determine the conjugated linoleic acids in beef with GC-FID. Perfect separation of all of the isomers cannot be achieved, though conjugated linoleic acid isomers proved to be separable from the other fatty acids that are present in beef in a significant amount related to conjugated linoleic acids. Lipid-extraction was carried out with n-hexane/i-propanol, giving 6.8 percent highe...