Experimental study on lowering oleic acid value and peroxide value of camellia sinensis by scraping film molecular distillation

¹ College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
² Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Zibo 255000, Shandong Province, China
³ College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China

^* Corresponding author: jmzhang@qust.edu.cn,

Abstract

Camellia oil is a kind of natural product with high added value. In the process of production, processing, and transportation, acidic substances and peroxides that reduce the quality of oil are produced. In this paper, it was refined by scraping membrane molecular distillation device. The factors affecting the molecular distillation results were analyzed and studied through a single factor experiment and orthogonal experiment. On the surface of the experiment, the optimal process parameters were as follows: the temperature was 190℃, the pressure was 1 Pa, the scraping speed was 300r/min, and the feed amount was 900g/h. Under this condition, the acid value in camellia oil decreased from 2.67mgKOH/g to 0.19mgKOH/g, and the free fatty acid removal rate was 92.88%. The peroxide value decreased from 16.78mmol/kg to 1.03mmol/kg, and the peroxide removal rate was 93.86%. The experimental results showed that the surface of the scraping membrane molecular distillation equipment could meet the national standard of acid value and peroxide value under the appropriate technological parameters, and there was no solvent residue, which was a safe physical purification process.