Study on Aqueous Enzymatic Extraction of Oil from Camellia Oleifera Seeds
In the present study,the effects of pretreatment methods,enzyme type and process conditions on the yield of Camellia oleifera oil extracted by enzyme - assisted aqueous technology were investigated. The results showed that the use of pectinase after two - time grinding of the raw materials could effectively destroy the cell wall of Camellia oleifera seeds. The effect of incubation temperature on the oil extracted was not significant for this mixture; the optimum conditions of single - factor experiments were the ratio of solid to liquid 1:4 .initial pH 4.5,temperature 40 t, 1% enzyme concentration and incubation time 3 h. Under the optimum conditions, the yield of free oil was up to 88.63%.
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