Extraction of oil from mishes using ethanol as an alternative solvent

Between the various types of vegetable oils consumed, corn germ oil stands out, is characterized by benefits to human health and being considered raw material in Angola, due climatic characteristics these regions. It this context that present work was developed, which aims implement methodologies extract oil, having hydrated ethanol as solvent. The procedure consisted use Soxhlet, extractor, ethanol, with an operating temperature 80ºC, when a vapor current solvent rises condenser condensate descends carthusian where it accumulated, extracts returns base equipment. used showed high operational performance extraction capacity comparable data cited literature, based on conventional solvents. resulted 7 ml (6.3g) specific mass 900 kg/m3 refractive index 1.469. These results show provides identification alternative solvents, derived from biomass processing, similar efficiency or better than obtained using