A Review on the Fundamentals of Palm Oil Fractionation: Processing Conditions and Seeding Agents

Fractionation is a well-established process adopted in the fats and oils industries. It involves the separation of low and high melting triacylglycerol under controlled cooling conditions into olein and stearin fractions with distinct chemical and physical properties. Amongst the other vegetable oils, palm oil is one of the most fractionated oils in the past few decades mainly attributed to its semisolid properties. The various fraction of palm oil allows it to be used in different types of food products such as margarine, frying oil, and cocoa butter substitute. In fractionation, proper control of the fractionation conditions is important to produce the fractions with desirable stearin and olein quality. The purpose of this paper is to critically review the fractionation conditions (crystallization temperature, agitation, cooling rate and crystallization time) that affect the yield and quality of the oil produced. Additionally, it also provides the latest updates on the influence of seeding agents (diacylglycerol, monoacylglycerol, hard fat, phytosterol, phospholipid, lecithin, essential oil, sugar, polyglycerol ester, and talc) used in fractionation. This article is useful to provide a fundamental understanding of fractionation to scientists from the industries or academia working in the fats and oils industries. Practical Applications: This paper provides an in-depth understanding of fractionation particularly on the parameters of fractionation in influencing the quality and yield of the stearin and olein produced. It also for the first time presents the effect of addition of various seeding agents on palm oil fractionation which can help the industry to select the appropriate seeding agents to improve the currently employed fractionation process. Thus, it can act as a guideline for the industry to understand and select the appropriate fractionation conditions when developing a new product using this approach. The fractionation conditions discussed here can also be used as a reference when fractionating other types of fats and oils as most of them share a common background.     

应用BP神经网络的单机架可逆式冷轧机弯辊力预设定

针对单机架可逆式冷轧机生产过程中，由于不同热轧生产厂的热轧板形原料性能、板形差别较大、从而造成弯辊力预设定值和实际指标相差较大的问题，利用现场生产工艺数据丰富，采用人工智能BP神经网络的方法，通过大量数据输入进行训练，大大的提高了生产过程中弯辊力预设定值的准确性。     

Ni3Al合金中晶界与位错交互作用的研究

运用嵌入原子法势函数和静态驰豫最陡梯度的计算方法,原子模拟了Ni_3Al合金中晶界与位错的交互作用.主要研究了晶界与位错交互作用的能量特征、晶界结构单元的畸变行为和晶界附近位错的核心结构,并分析讨论了各种因素对它们的影响以及与Ni_3Al晶界韧脆行为之间的关系     

Effect of processing on sphingolipid content in soybean products

Soybeans are believed to be a rich source of sphingolipids, a class of polar lipids that has received attention for their possible cancer-inhibiting activities. The effect of processing on the sphingolipid content of various soybean products has not been determined. Glucosylceramide (GlcCer), the major sphingolipid type in soybeans, was measured in several processed soybean products to illustrate which product(s) GlcCer is partitioned into during processing and where it is lost. Whole soybeans were processed into full-fat flakes, from which crude oil was extracted. Crude oil was refined by conventional methods, and defatted soy flakes were further processed into alcohol-washed and acid-washed soy protein concentrates (SPC) and soy protein isolates (SPI) by laboratory-scale methods that simulated industrial practices. GlcCer was isolated from the samples by solvent extraction, solvent partition, and TLC and was quantified by HPLC. GlcCer remained mostly within the defatted soy flakes (91%) rather than in the oil (9%) after oil extraction. Only 52, 42, and 26% of GlcCer from defatted soy flakes was recovered in the acid-washed SPC, alcohol-washed SPC, and SPI products, respectively. All protein products had a similar GlcCer concentration of about 281 nmol/g (dry wt basis). The minor quantity of GlcCer in the crude oil was almost completely removed by water degumming.     

Study on Tribological Properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene Drawn Uniaxially at Different Temperature

Summary: Wear behavior correlations with morphology have been established from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) drawn at 200, 327, and 375 °C with draw ratio about 4. The friction coefficient and wear rate for PTFE drawn at 327 °C are lower and the wear rate is lower than that of undrawn PTFE by about 30%. The structures of samples were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), DSC, and wide angle X‐ray diffraction (WAXD). Results indicate that the debris morphologies of samples are different. The differences in the tribological behavior of undrawn and drawn samples were attributed to the improvement of the degree of the crystalline, fibrillation, and orderliness by drawing, especially, for PTFE drawn at 327 °C. The orderliness of molecular arrangement along the drawn direction is also higher for PTFE drawn at 327 °C than those of PTFE drawn at 200 and 375 °C, respectively. Therefore, the intensity of covalent bond along drawn direction is higher. The shear resistance and the deformability of the material are greatly improved and the size of the wear breakage unit decreases, which results in a good tribological property for PTFE drawn at 327 °C.

SEM morphology of fractured surface perpendicular to the draw direction for PTFE drawn at 327 °C.     

有机试剂结构与性质的研究：Ⅻ.有机试剂的pKa与改进的Hammett方程

有机试剂的ｐＫａ是其重要物化参数，是有机试剂酸碱性的度量，直接决定配合物的稳定性。应用改进的Ｈａｍｍｅｔｔ方程处理取代基常数与ｐＫａ的关系，得到满意的结果。     

聚丙烯纤维水相异相接枝马来酸酐

本文研究了用水相异相法在聚丙烯纤维上接枝马来酸酐，用称重法测定接枝率，结果认为，随着反应中使用的马来酸酐和过硫酸铵浓度的提高，所得产物的接枝率显著提高，而反应温度和反应时间的影响则是开始随温度升高和时间延长接枝率上升，达到最大值后下降，在本实验中，各种反应条件下，都可以得到超过1．8％的接枝率。     

吉林省中小流域经验模型的应用探讨

由于中小河流水文站点多数都属于无资料站,所以用传统的经验相关或者流域水文模型有一定难度。吉林省水文水资源局水情预报中心的工作者根据多年预报经验总结提出吉林省中小流域经验模型。该方法主要依据流域特征以及降雨和洪峰流量的关系,推算流域产流;再根据时段降雨按照产流过程叠加处理,概化流量过程,进行洪水预报。属于产汇流一体的流量过程计算模型。     

TPR处理剂的研究

利用活性单体苯乙烯与氯丁橡胶、高苯乙烯热塑弹性体接枝聚合，所得产物稀释后用于ＴＰＲ（ＴｈｅｒｍａｌＰｌａｓｔｉｃＲｕｂｂｅｒ）粘接前的预处理，可明显提高剥离强度。     

浅谈浙江省涂料企业技工人才存在的问题及对策

对浙江省部分涂料企业技工人才现状及原因进行了分析,就企业如何培训和留住技工人才提出了一些对策和建议。