1. Overview The Australasian section of the American Oil Chemists Society (AAOCS) held their biennial meeting in Adelaide, Australia on 8–11 November 2011. Over 70 scientists, researchers and industry representatives gathered for three days of talks and discussions on lipid related topics. A highlight was the hot topic symposium on the new olive oil standard being introduced in Australia. Paul ...

Hydrogen sulfide is one of the main waste products petrochemical industry; it produced by catalytic hydrodesulfurization processes (HDS) hydrocarbon feedstocks, and a byproduct from sweetening sour natural gas upgrading heavy oils, bitumen, coals [...]

A survey to determine the trans fatty acid content of a range of processed foods was carried out in response to recent reformulation work by the food industry to lower the artificial trans fatty acid content of processed products. Sixty two composite samples, made up of between 5 and 12 sub-samples, were collected in 2010 and were analysed for fatty acids, and a range of nutrients. The foods an...

The expansion of oil palm cultivation in Indonesia has been driven by a strong world demand for food especially fats and oils. Commencing in the island of Sumatra, it spread out to other island like Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Irian but not to the island of Bali which was already well developed. The role of palm oil in developing remote inland regions and improving the standard of living of rural ...

Polycrystalline particles composed of triacylglycerol (TAG) molecules, and their networks, in anhydrous TAG oils find extensive use as edible oils in the food industry. Although modelling studies of TAG systems, have been carried out, none have attempted to address a problem of central concern to food science and technology: the "oil binding capacity" of a system of such edible oils. Crystallin...

Density is one of the most prevalent physical property used to classify and characterise fluids, not only in the environmental, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage industries, but also in hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). Petroleum products are everywhere in today’s life, and have become almost natural parts of the modern world. Numerous products used on a daily basis are der...

South Korea’s main industry is the manufacturing industry, and it requires stable energy. Korea heavily relies on importing oils to produce energy, thus efficient energy management is critical. This is why many renewable and smart energy policies and infrastructure planning are being set up currently. Supplying reliable and sustainable renewable energy to remote areas has especially been questi...

Canola has the lowest content of saturated fat amongst oils marketed in North America, and therefore is a valuable nutritional component for food industry and household use. Oils, extracted from vegetable tissues, contain a number of impurities which have to be removed in order to make the oil suitable for human consumption. One such impurity consists of waxes, which are high melting esters of ...

essential oils and their components are becoming increasingly popular as naturally occurring antimicrobial agents. in this work the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of ferula gumosa essential oils were determined. the essential oil components were identified by gc/ms analysis. the minimum inhibitory concentration (mic) of essential oil against five selected pathogenic microorgani...