State of art of the application of membrane technology to vegetable oils A review
State of art of the application of membrane technology to vegetable oils: A review Cesar de Morais Coutinho a, * , Ming Chih Chiu a , Rodrigo Correa Basso a , Ana Paula Badan Ribeiro a , Lireny Aparecida Guaraldo Gonçalves a , Luiz Antonio Viotto b a State University of Campinas, Department of Food Technology, Laboratory of Fats and Oils (LOG), Caixa Postal 6091, CEP 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil b State University of Campinas, Department of Food Engineering, Laboratory of Process Engineering (LEP), Campinas, SP, Brazil a b s t r a c t The purpose of this review has as objective to present the applications and the recent development of membrane technology in the vegetable oil processing. It approaches fundamentals aspects in the processes of separation by membranes as well as present the related works in the degumming, dewaxing, deacidification, solvent recovery, pigment removal, concentration of minor components and separation of emulsions. Its shows that oils pr...