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Kinetics And Thermodynamics Of Oil Extraction From Sun Ower Seeds In The Presence Of Aqueous Acidic, Hüseyi̇n Topallar, Ümi̇t Geçgel

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Oil extraction was performed in aqueous HCl, H_2SO_4 and H_3PO_4 solutions with n-hexane (C_6H_{14}) at 30, 40, 50 and 60 ^oC using 10 gr of sunflower seeds over 1 h with 10-min. sampling intervals. The optimum acid concentration was wt. 10% for each acid, and the highest oil yield was obtained in the extraction procedure with n-hexane containing H_2SO_4. The extraction process was observed with regard to the percent oil yield versus time, and the reaction order was found to be first-order kinetics by the differential method. The activation energy for the oil extraction kinetics of sunflower seeds with 10% …