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Peanut Oil Leaching Experiment Guide

The document describes experiments to determine the effect of contact time and solvent amount on extracting peanut oil through leaching. The methodology involves preparing peanut samples, performing leaching experiments with varying contact times and solvent amounts, separating the oil through distillation and liquid-liquid extraction, and analyzing the extracted solids. The objectives are to study how the retention value changes with time and solvent amount and to design an optimized large-scale leaching facility based on the results.

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Peanut Oil Leaching Experiment Guide

The document describes experiments to determine the effect of contact time and solvent amount on extracting peanut oil through leaching. The methodology involves preparing peanut samples, performing leaching experiments with varying contact times and solvent amounts, separating the oil through distillation and liquid-liquid extraction, and analyzing the extracted solids. The objectives are to study how the retention value changes with time and solvent amount and to design an optimized large-scale leaching facility based on the results.

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Leaching of Peanut Oil

Abstract
Table of Contents
Nomenclature:
I. Introduction

Objectives:

Determine the effect of contact time and solvent amount in the extraction process.
Describe the nature of the retention value (constant or variable)
Design a large scale leaching facility
II. Review of Related Literature
III. Methodology
A. Sample Preparation
1. Manually shell the peanuts.
2. Clean the kernels from dirt.
3. Oven-dry the kernels for 24 hours at 120 C to remove the moisture.
4. Cool the dried peanut for 4 hours.
5. After cooling, crush the kernels using mortar and pestle. You can also use a blender.
6. Screen the crushed kernel using standard sieve.
7. Store the sample in a cool dry place.

B. Leaching Experiment
1. Weigh three 25 grams of sample.
2. Weigh the filter papers.
3. Place each 25-gram sample in a beaker.
4. Pour X amount of solvent into the first (1st) beaker.
5. Seal the beaker to prevent the alcohol from evaporating. You can use a plastic wrapper.
6. Leave the set-up for Y minutes.
7. After Y minutes, filter the extract from the solid.
8. Remove the solids from the filter paper.
9. Weigh the filter paper.
10. Store the solids in a clean dry place.
11. Get one mL of the extract.
12. Weigh the 1 mL.
13. Determine and record the density.
14. Return the 1 mL extract to the filtrate.
15. Pour the filtrate into the 2nd beaker. Repeat set 5 to 10.
16. Repeat the process for the 3rd beaker.
17. Weigh the final filtrate.
Note: Values of X and Y is left to the discretion of the students. Use three values of X and Y.

C. Separation Process
1. Distill the final filtrate in a simple batch distilling apparatus. Note: Distillate will contain
richer amount of ethanol.
2. Allow the bottom product to cool to room temperature.
3. Pour 5 mL (depending on the capacity of the extractor) of the bottom product into a liquid-
liquid extractor set-up.
4. Add 5 mL distilled water into the extractor.
5. Turn the set-up upside-down.
6. Let the set-up stand for 1 minute.
7. Open the stopcock and drain the aqueous phase into an Erlenmeyer flask.
8. Measure the density of the aqueous solution.
9. Repeat step 4 and 8 until the density of the aqueous solution remains constant.
10. Repeat process 3 to 9 until the entire bottom product is exhausted.
11. Weigh the oil.
12. Store the oil in a clean, dry and closed container.
D. Analysis
1. Weigh the wet solids obtained from the filtration process.
2. Dry the solids at 100 C.
3. Leave the set-up for 24 hours.
4. Reweight the dry solids.
IV. Results and Discussion
V. Conclusions
VI. References
VII. Appendix

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