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[Krunal Shah]

Hello Every One,

I hope you all are fine, I am final year student in ChemE and need some short of help in my Final Year Project work.
I have given to design the plant for extraction and purification of Castor Oil from Seeds.
I want some references to refer and wanna know about the latest techniques recently use for this type of Operation,
please help me out.

Thanks in Advance,
Regards,
Krunal Shah.

[kkala]

Although you may have traced most of them, some probably useful references can be:
-wikipedia for general castor oil knowledge:http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Castor_oil.
-castor oil extraction & purification (no flow sheet):http://www.castoroil...extraction.html.
-castor oil general, including preparation (no flow sheet):http://botanical.com...c/casoil32.html.
-castor oil general info (advertisement?):http://www.castoroil...erivatives.html.
-grades and derivatives:http://www.keloth.com/castoroil.html. Also http://www.kisanagro.com/main/. Market and grades should be known to specify grades to be produced by the plant.
-brief castor oil processing (you may be able to ask more data):http://www.servotech...r-oil-complexes.
-paper for experimental extraction using C7H16 as solvent:http://ljs.academicd...g/A08/43_52.htm.
-castor oil extraction plants, data on request:http://www.troika-so...ion-plants.html.
-special product from castor oil (ogiri), but Figure 2 briefly includes castor oil extraction by words (then it proceeds to fermentation):http://www.pathogenc...esentation.ashx.
-mainly production countries and markets: http://www.modioilmi...20080424_02.pdf.
-castor oil is mentioned by N. Shreve "The Chemical Process Industries" (Chemical Engineering series, MacGraw-Hill), probably not extensively:http://books.google....epage&q&f=false.
-If I remember well, Smith (Chemical Engineering kinetics, MacGraw-Hill) presents an example of acetylated castor oil.
-castor oil plants brief info (probably can get more):http://www.chemchina...stor_oil_plant/.
No flowsheet drawings have been traced, but above can give the process picture; then you can develop the specific flow sheet and dimension the equipment. Hope of good realization of your task!

Edited by kkala, 06 July 2011 - 01:00 PM.

[Krunal Shah]

Thanks a lot..
Dattebayo..!