LIPASE CATALYSED INTERESTERIFICATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OLEOCHEMICALS FROM NON TRADITIONAL OILS

Authors: G. A. Usmani* and H. V. Patil

University Department of Chemical Technology North Maharashtra University,Jalgaon-425 001(MS) India; Email: usmani_ga@yahoo.co.in

Non-traditional oils which are not used for edible purpose are to be converted into value added products. Thus interesterification of such oils catalyzed by lipase to produce oleo chemicals is carried out in present work. Conventional chemical method of interesterification has got several disadvantages which can be overcome by proposed work using enzyme catalyst. Enzyme catalyzed process is eco-friendly and less expensive. Besides these, it has one more advantage of selective action of enzyme to produce desired product. Here, interesterification is carried out by using L-aspergine monohydrate lipase as a catalyst on nontraditional oils like Neem, Karanja and Rice bran oil to produce e oleo chemicals having entirely different properties.

Keywords : Lipase, Interesterification, Oleo chemicals, Non-traditional oils.