Information Package / Course Catalogue
Vegetable Oil Technology and Analyses
Course Code: KGK215
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 1
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To teach the definition of oil, oil raw materials, storage of oil raw materials, oil extraction, refining of crude oils, production of modified oil, oil raw materials and quality control analysis of oils.

Course Content

Oily raw materials, Storage of oil seeds and fruits, pretreatments (cleaning, shelling and separation, lintering, grinding, roasting), Oil extraction by pressing, Solvent extraction, Refining (removal of sticky substances, deacidification, decolorization, deodorization, winterization techniques), Quality control systems in refining processes, oil modification techniques (hydrogenation, interesterification, fractional crystallization), Margarine production technology, Olive oil production technology.

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