Disclosure of Invention
Based on the above, the invention aims to provide a method for enriching polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from plant deodorized distillate, which is used for solving the problems of high energy consumption, high pollution, low efficiency and the like in the prior art, and provides a method for simultaneously extracting polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from plant oil deodorized distillate. The method has the advantages of high utilization rate of raw materials, simple operation, mild reaction conditions, low energy consumption, little pollution, high separation degree of active substances, good color and purity of products and remarkable improvement on production efficiency.
The application provides a method for enriching polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from plant deodorizer distillate, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:
taking a proper amount of plant deodorized distillate, adding short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier or a co-emulsifier into the plant deodorized distillate for emulsification, and adding low-temperature enzyme into an obtained emulsified product for esterification;
performing gradient freezing crystallization and filter pressing on a product after the esterification reaction to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate after the filter pressing, wherein the filter cake comprises phytosterol;
carrying out multi-stage rectification on the filtrate to obtain squalene, natural vitamin E and a concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid ester;
and (3) carrying out urea complexation on the concentrate of the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, urea and ethanol according to a proportion to obtain the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester with high content.
According to the method for enriching the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, the squalene, the natural vitamin E and the phytosterol from the plant deodorized distillate, the polyunsaturated fatty acid, the squalene, the natural vitamin E, the phytosterol and other nutrients are simultaneously extracted from the plant oil deodorized distillate, so that the additional value of the deodorized distillate can be obviously improved, and the production cost of each nutrient is reduced; further, this application adds emulsifier or co-emulsifier and emulsifies to the plant deodorization distillate, to adding low temperature enzyme in the emulsification product that obtains in order to carry out esterification reaction, relative traditional technique, the time of esterification reaction has been reduced, secondly, adopt low temperature enzyme to go on, moreover, this application adopts multistage rectification to the filtrate, molecular distillation in the traditional technique has been replaced, thereby make this application can extract polyunsaturated fatty acid, the technical defect that traditional scheme can only extract methyl ester and can not extract polyunsaturated fatty acid has been optimized, in addition, the plant squalene that obtains, natural vitamin E content is higher, in having solved prior art, can't extract polyunsaturated fatty acid, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from the plant oil deodorization distillate simultaneously, lead to improving manufacturing cost's technical problem.
In addition, the method for enriching polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from the plant deodorized distillate can also have the following additional technical characteristics:
further, in the step of adding a short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier to the plant deodorizer distillate:
the mass ratio of the short-chain alcohol to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 12-18%;
the mass ratio of the emulsifier or co-emulsifier to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 0.1-2%;
the mass ratio of the water to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 1-4%.
Furthermore, the auxiliary emulsifier generates fatty acid salt through fatty acid reaction, thereby playing a role in emulsification;
further, in the step of adding a short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier or a co-emulsifier to the plant deodorized distillate to perform emulsification, and adding a low-temperature enzyme to the obtained emulsified product to perform an esterification reaction:
the temperature of the emulsification reaction is 25-35 ℃, and low-temperature enzyme is added into the obtained emulsified product at the temperature of 25-35 ℃ to carry out esterification reaction;
the short-chain alcohol comprises one of methanol or ethanol;
the auxiliary emulsifier comprises one of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide;
the emulsifier comprises one of tween and span.
Further, in the step of adding a low-temperature enzyme to the obtained emulsified product to perform an esterification reaction:
the mass ratio of the enzyme to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 0.2-0.5%, and the esterification reaction is carried out for 4-6 hours.
Further, in the step of performing gradient freezing crystallization and pressure filtration on the product after the esterification reaction:
the temperature reduction speed in the gradient freezing crystallization process is 2-5 ℃/h.
Further, in the step of performing multistage rectification on the filtrate, the multistage rectification method comprises the following steps:
performing 1-stage flash evaporation, namely adding the filtrate into a 1-stage flash evaporation tower, and performing flash evaporation to remove small molecular weight substances under the conditions that the feeding temperature is 100-130 ℃ and the vacuum degree of a system at the top of the tower is 200-2000Pa, wherein the small molecular weight substances comprise water, plant hydrocarbon, fatty acid, aldehyde and ketone;
2, distilling, namely continuously adding the material subjected to flash evaporation and degassing of the 1 st stage into a 2 nd stage rectifying tower, wherein the tower bottom temperature of the rectifying tower is 170-190 ℃, the tower top temperature is 140-160 ℃, the vacuum condition is 50-300Pa, and substances removed from light components in the 2 nd stage rectifying tower comprise C 12 -C 16 Predominantly fatty acid ester, residual C 18 Polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E;
rectifying in the 3 rd stage, continuously adding the heavy components in the 2 nd stage rectifying tower into the 3 rd stage rectifying tower, heating the tower kettle at 190-210 deg.C, maintaining the tower top at 160-180 deg.C, and vacuum at 50-300Pa to obtain light components in the 3 rd stage rectifying tower 18 Mainly polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, residual plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E;
rectifying in the 4 th stage, continuously adding the heavy components in the 3 rd stage rectifying tower into the 4 th stage rectifying tower, heating the tower kettle at 220-250 deg.C, maintaining the tower top at 180-210 deg.C, and vacuum at 50-300Pa, wherein the substances removed from the light components in the 4 th stage rectifying tower include plant squalene, part of plant hydrocarbon, C 18 The above fatAcid ester, residual natural vitamin E, phytosterol and partial plant asphalt;
coupling molecular distillation, continuously adding the heavy component after the 4 th-stage rectification into a molecular distillation system, wherein the feeding flow rate is that the heating temperature is kept at 220-240 ℃, the vacuum condition is 1-10Pa, and the light component after the molecular distillation comprises natural vitamin E, phytosterol and residual vegetable pitch.
Further, the step of urea complexing the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters with urea and ethanol in a ratio comprising:
dissolving a proper amount of urea in an ethanol water solution, adding the concentrate of the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, and heating and stirring until the urea is completely dissolved;
and after the urea is completely dissolved, cooling, standing for crystallization, carrying out vacuum filtration, and carrying out reduced pressure recovery, washing and distillation on the filtered mother liquor to obtain the high-content polyunsaturated fatty acid ester.
Further, the mass ratio of the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters to the urea is 1:1-3;
the mass ratio of the urea to the ethanol aqueous solution is 1:2-5;
in the ethanol water solution, the volume percentage of water is 1-10%.
Further, after the urea is completely dissolved, cooling to 5-10 ℃, standing in an environment of 4 ℃, and growing the crystals for 6-24 hours.
Further, the step of adding the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters and stirring with heating until the urea is completely dissolved comprises:
heating and stirring at 70-80 ℃ until the urea is completely dissolved.
Detailed Description
To facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawings. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
In order to solve the technical problems of high production cost and low efficiency caused by the fact that polyunsaturated fatty acid, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol cannot be simultaneously extracted from a deodorized distillate of vegetable oil in the prior art, the application provides a method for simultaneously enriching polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from a deodorized distillate of vegetable oil, so that the application has the following beneficial effects:
1) Through the emulsification pretreatment of raw materials and the enzymatic catalysis esterification and transesterification, one enzyme not only catalyzes fatty acid to be converted into fatty acid ester, but also converts glyceride to fatty acid ester, and has the advantages of high reaction speed, short time, high efficiency and low cost.
2) By utilizing multi-stage continuous rectification, various plant nutrients such as polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, plant squalene, natural vitamin E, phytosterol and the like can be generated at the same time, wherein the content of the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester is between 50 and 70 percent, the content of the plant squalene can be between 30 and 60 percent, the content of the phytosterol is between 40 and 70 percent, and the content of the natural vitamin E can be between 50 and 70 percent.
3) After urea complexation, the content of polyunsaturated fatty acid ester can further reach more than 80-95%, and free polyunsaturated fatty acid can be generated after enzyme method and acid-base hydrolysis.
4) Through process integration, one production line can simultaneously extract and prepare high-quality polyunsaturated fatty acid, plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E, the production cost is greatly reduced, and the production efficiency is improved.
Specifically, the vegetable oil deodorizer distillate in the application is derived from one or more of soybean oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, linseed oil and safflower seed oil. The method for enriching polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from plant deodorizer distillate comprises the following steps:
taking a proper amount of plant deodorized distillate, adding short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier or a co-emulsifier into the plant deodorized distillate for emulsification, and adding low-temperature enzyme into an obtained emulsified product for esterification;
performing gradient freezing crystallization and pressure filtration on a product after the esterification reaction to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate after pressure filtration, wherein the filter cake comprises phytosterol;
carrying out multi-stage rectification on the filtrate to obtain squalene and natural vitamin E after rectification and also obtain a concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid ester;
and (3) carrying out urea complexation on the concentrate of the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, urea and ethanol according to a proportion to obtain the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester with high content.
It is further noted that the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters includes polyunsaturated fatty acid alkyl esters, the polyunsaturated fatty acid alkyl esters include polyunsaturated fatty acid methyl esters and polyunsaturated fatty acid ethyl esters, the polyunsaturated fatty acid methyl esters include methyl linoleate, and the polyunsaturated fatty acid ethyl esters include ethyl linoleate. The polyunsaturated fatty acid ester is hydrolyzed to obtain the polyunsaturated fatty acid.
Specifically, the low-temperature enzyme esterification is carried out by emulsifying by a high-speed shearing emulsifier at 25-35 ℃ in a certain proportion through short-chain alcohol such as methanol and ethanol, deodorized distillate of vegetable oil, water and emulsifier, adding a certain amount of lipase at the temperature for esterification, and converting fatty acid and glyceride in the deodorized distillate of vegetable oil into fatty acid alkyl ester.
In some alternative embodiments, in the step of adding a short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier or co-emulsifier to the plant deodorizer distillate:
the mass ratio of the short-chain alcohol to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 12-18%;
the mass ratio of the emulsifier or co-emulsifier to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 0.1-2%;
the mass ratio of the water to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 1-4%.
In some optional embodiments, in the step of adding a short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier to the plant deodorizer distillate for emulsification, and adding a low-temperature enzyme to the obtained emulsified product for esterification:
the temperature of the emulsification reaction is 25-35 ℃, and low-temperature enzyme is added into the obtained emulsified product at the temperature of 25-35 ℃ to carry out esterification reaction;
the short-chain alcohol comprises one of methanol or ethanol;
the auxiliary emulsifier comprises one of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide;
the emulsifier comprises one of tween and span.
In some alternative embodiments, in the step of adding a low temperature enzyme to the resulting emulsified product to perform the esterification reaction:
the mass ratio of the enzyme to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 0.2-0.5%, and the esterification reaction is carried out for 4-6 hours.
In some alternative embodiments, in the step of subjecting the product after the esterification reaction to gradient freeze crystallization and pressure filtration:
the cooling speed in the gradient freezing crystallization process is 2-5 ℃/h.
In some optional embodiments, in the step of subjecting the filtrate to multi-stage rectification, the multi-stage rectification method comprises:
performing 1-stage flash evaporation, namely adding the filtrate into a 1-stage flash evaporation tower, and performing flash evaporation to remove small molecular weight substances under the conditions that the feeding temperature is 100-130 ℃ and the vacuum degree of a system at the top of the tower is 200-2000Pa, wherein the small molecular weight substances comprise water, plant hydrocarbon, fatty acid, aldehyde and ketone;
the 2 nd stage rectification, the material after the 1 st stage flash evaporation and degassing is continuously added into a 2 nd stage rectification tower, the temperature of the tower bottom of the rectification tower is 170-190 ℃, the temperature of the tower top is 140-160 ℃, the vacuum condition is 50-300Pa, and the substances removed from the light components in the 2 nd stage rectification tower comprise C 12 -C 16 Predominantly fatty acid ester, residual C 18 Polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E;
rectifying in the 3 rd stage, continuously adding the heavy components in the 2 nd stage rectifying tower into the 3 rd stage rectifying tower, heating the tower kettle at 190-210 deg.c, maintaining the tower top at 160-180 deg.c and vacuum condition at 50-300Pa, and obtaining light components in the 3 rd stage rectifying tower to obtain C 18 Mainly polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, residual plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E;
rectifying in the 4 th stage, continuously adding the heavy components in the 3 rd stage rectifying tower into the 4 th stage rectifying tower, heating the tower kettle at 220-250 deg.C, maintaining the tower top at 180-210 deg.C, and vacuum at 50-300Pa, wherein the substances removed from the light components in the 4 th stage rectifying tower include plant squalene, part of plant hydrocarbon, C 18 The above fatty acid ester, residual natural vitamin E, phytosterol and part of plant pitch;
coupling molecular distillation, continuously adding the heavy component after the 4 th-stage rectification into a molecular distillation system, wherein the feeding flow rate is that the heating temperature is kept at 220-240 ℃, the vacuum condition is 1-10Pa, and the light component after the molecular distillation comprises natural vitamin E, phytosterol and residual vegetable pitch.
In some alternative embodiments, the step of urea complexing the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters with urea and ethanol in a ratio comprises:
dissolving a proper amount of urea in an ethanol water solution, adding the concentrate of the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, heating and stirring until the urea is completely dissolved;
and after the urea is completely dissolved, cooling, standing for crystallization, carrying out vacuum filtration, and carrying out reduced pressure recovery, washing and distillation on the filtered mother liquor to obtain the high-content polyunsaturated fatty acid ester.
In some alternative embodiments, the mass ratio of the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters to the urea is 1:1-3;
the mass ratio of the urea to the ethanol aqueous solution is 1:2-5;
in the ethanol water solution, the volume percentage of water is 1-10%.
In some optional embodiments, after the urea is completely dissolved, the temperature is reduced to 5-10 ℃, the mixture is placed in an environment with the temperature of 4 ℃ for standing and crystal growth is carried out for 6-24 hours.
In some alternative embodiments, the step of adding the concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid esters followed by stirring with heat until the urea is completely dissolved comprises:
heating and stirring at 70-80 ℃ until the urea is completely dissolved.
The invention adopts enzymatic catalysis esterification to convert fatty acid and glyceride into fatty acid ester, thereby facilitating the subsequent cold separation of phytosterol and the separation of natural vitamin E and squalene. And then, multi-stage continuous rectification is adopted to gradually separate the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, the plant squalene, the natural vitamin E, the phytosterol and other active substances, the steps are simple and convenient, the separation efficiency is high, the cost is low, and the utilization rate of the raw materials is obviously improved.
In order to facilitate understanding of the invention, several examples of the invention are given below, with reference to fig. 1 for the process flow. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.
Example 1
The method for enriching polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol from the plant deodorized distillate in the embodiment comprises the following steps:
s101, taking a proper amount of plant deodorized distillate, adding short-chain alcohol and an emulsifier or a co-emulsifier into the plant deodorized distillate for emulsification, and adding low-temperature enzyme into an obtained emulsified product for esterification.
As a specific example, the temperature of the emulsification reaction is 25-35 ℃, and low-temperature enzyme is added to the obtained emulsified product at 25-35 ℃ to perform esterification reaction, specifically, the mass ratio of the enzyme to the vegetable oil deodorized distillate is 0.2-0.5%, and the esterification reaction lasts for 4-6 hours; short chain alcohols include methanol and ethanol; the emulsifier comprises tween and span, the co-emulsifier comprises one of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, and further, the co-emulsifier generates fatty acid salt through the reaction of alkali and fatty acid, thereby playing a role in emulsification;
the mass ratio of the short-chain alcohol to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 12-18%; the mass ratio of the emulsifier or co-emulsifier to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 0.1-2%; the mass ratio of the water to the deodorized distillate of the vegetable oil is 1-4%.
S102, carrying out gradient freezing crystallization and pressure filtration on the product after the esterification reaction to obtain a filter cake and a filtrate after pressure filtration, wherein the filter cake comprises phytosterol.
And (3) carrying out gradient cooling on the esterified liquid after the esterification reaction to crystallize and separate out most of sterol, specifically, carrying out gradient freezing crystallization at a cooling speed of 2-5 ℃/h, and then carrying out pressure filtration to obtain filtrate and a filter cake with the main component of phytosterol.
S103, carrying out multistage rectification on the filtrate to obtain squalene and natural vitamin E after rectification, and also obtaining a concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid ester.
Performing multistage rectification on the filtrate obtained by filter pressing, wherein the specific multistage rectification method comprises the following steps:
performing 1-stage flash evaporation, namely adding the filtrate into a 1-stage flash evaporation tower, and performing flash evaporation to remove small molecular weight substances including water, plant hydrocarbon, fatty acid, aldehyde and ketone under the conditions that the feeding temperature is 100-130 ℃ and the vacuum degree of a system at the top of the tower is 200-2000 Pa;
rectifying in the 2 nd stage, continuously adding the material after the 1 st stage flash evaporation and degassing into a 2 nd stage rectifying tower, wherein the tower bottom temperature of the rectifying tower is 170-190 ℃, the tower top temperature is 140-160 ℃, the vacuum condition is 50-300Pa, and substances removed from light components in the 2 nd stage rectifying tower comprise C 12 -C 16 Predominantly fatty acid ester, residual C 18 Polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E;
rectifying in the 3 rd stage, continuously adding the heavy components in the 2 nd stage rectifying tower into the 3 rd stage rectifying tower, heating the tower kettle at 190-210 deg.C, maintaining the tower top at 160-180 deg.C, and vacuum at 50-300Pa, and obtaining light components in the 3 rd stage rectifying tower 18 Mainly polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, residual plant squalene, phytosterol and natural vitamin E;
rectifying in the 4 th stage, continuously adding the heavy components in the 3 rd stage rectifying tower into the 4 th stage rectifying tower, heating the tower kettle at 220-250 deg.C, maintaining the tower top at 180-210 deg.C, and vacuum at 50-300Pa, wherein the substances removed from the light components in the 4 th stage rectifying tower include plant squalene, part of plant hydrocarbon, C 18 The above fatty acid ester, residual natural vitamin E, phytosterol and part of plant pitch;
coupling molecular distillation, continuously adding the heavy component after the 4 th-stage rectification into a molecular distillation system, wherein the feeding flow rate is that the heating temperature is kept at 220-240 ℃, the vacuum condition is 1-10Pa, and the light component after the molecular distillation comprises natural vitamin E, phytosterol and residual vegetable pitch.
S104, carrying out urea complexation on the concentrate of the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester, urea and ethanol according to a proportion to obtain the polyunsaturated fatty acid ester with high content.
Dissolving a proper amount of urea in an ethanol water solution, adding a light component obtained in the 3 rd-level rectification, heating and stirring at 70-80 ℃ until the urea is completely dissolved, cooling to 5-10 ℃ after the urea is completely dissolved, standing at 4 ℃, and growing crystals for 6-24 hours to obtain the high-content polyunsaturated fatty acid ester.
As a specific example, the mass ratio of concentrate of polyunsaturated fatty acid ester to urea is 1:1-3; the mass ratio of the urea to the ethanol aqueous solution is 1:2-5; in the ethanol water solution, the volume percentage of water is 1-10%.
The following are experimental data obtained by performing 5 sets of experiments by the method to illustrate the process method adopted by the present invention and the effects achieved by the process method, and are specifically shown as follows:
table 1: experimental condition data for experiments carried out in groups 1-5
Table 2: the final product of groups 1-5 has polyunsaturated fatty acid, squalene, natural vitamin E and phytosterol content
As can be seen from tables 1 and 2, the technical solution in the present application can simultaneously enrich polyunsaturated fatty acid esters, squalene, natural vitamin E, and phytosterol from the deodorized distillate of vegetable oil, and can significantly improve the added value of the deodorized distillate and reduce the production cost of each nutrient by simultaneously extracting nutrients such as polyunsaturated fatty acid, squalene, natural vitamin E, and phytosterol from the deodorized distillate of vegetable oil. Further, this application adds the emulsifier in to plant deodorization distillate and emulsifies, to adding low temperature enzyme in the emulsification product that obtains in order to carry out esterification reaction, traditional technology relatively, the time of esterification reaction has been reduced, secondly, adopt low temperature enzyme to go on, moreover, this application adopts multistage rectification to filtrating, has replaced the molecular distillation in the traditional art, thereby make this application can extract polyunsaturated fatty acid, optimized the technical defect that traditional scheme can only extract methyl ester and can not extract polyunsaturated fatty acid and its ester.
In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.