Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography

Carotenes and tocopherols provide plenty of health benefits and are important in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Due to the increasing demand for these natural products, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of recovering carotenes and tocopherols from agricultural wastewater...

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Main Author: Chan, Choi Yee
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/41672/1/CHAN_CHOI_YEE.pdf
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spelling my-usm-ep.416722019-04-12T05:26:53Z Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography 2010-04 Chan, Choi Yee TP1-1185 Chemical technology Carotenes and tocopherols provide plenty of health benefits and are important in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Due to the increasing demand for these natural products, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of recovering carotenes and tocopherols from agricultural wastewater abundantly available in Malaysia, which is the palm oil mill effluent (POME). Solvent extraction was used to retrieve oil from POME whereas adsorption chromatography approach was employed to recover carotenes and tocopherols from the extracted oil. 2010-04 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/41672/ http://eprints.usm.my/41672/1/CHAN_CHOI_YEE.pdf application/pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Kejuteraan Kimia
institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
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language English
topic TP1-1185 Chemical technology
spellingShingle TP1-1185 Chemical technology
Chan, Choi Yee
Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
description Carotenes and tocopherols provide plenty of health benefits and are important in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Due to the increasing demand for these natural products, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of recovering carotenes and tocopherols from agricultural wastewater abundantly available in Malaysia, which is the palm oil mill effluent (POME). Solvent extraction was used to retrieve oil from POME whereas adsorption chromatography approach was employed to recover carotenes and tocopherols from the extracted oil.
format Thesis
qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level Doctorate
author Chan, Choi Yee
author_facet Chan, Choi Yee
author_sort Chan, Choi Yee
title Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_short Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_full Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_fullStr Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_full_unstemmed Recovery Of Carotenes And Tocopherols From Palm Oil Mill Effluent Via Extraction And Chromatography
title_sort recovery of carotenes and tocopherols from palm oil mill effluent via extraction and chromatography
granting_institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department Pusat Pengajian Kejuteraan Kimia
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.usm.my/41672/1/CHAN_CHOI_YEE.pdf
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