The University Of Jordan
Department Of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering Laboratory(3)
Experiment Title :Distillation
Short Report
Done By :
Date of Performing Experiment:
Date of Submitting Report:
16/2/2015
23/2/2015
ABSTRACT:
Soxhlet extraction is a solid liquid extraction process (leaching) .in our experiment we learned
how to extract oil from olive oil cake using hexane as a low boiling point solvent. We found that
the maximum amount of oil that can be extracted is 10% which can be extracted by applying 6
cycles of extraction and this considered as optimum number of cycles - applying more cycles
will just led to consume time without significant change in percent was extracted - . The
efficiency of this process is about
which considered to be
Table Of Contents:
Results……………………………………………………………………………………..1
Discussion Of Results…………………………………………………………………..8
Conclusion & Recommendation …………………………………………………..10
References………………………………………………………………………………..11
Appendices……………………………………………………………………………....12
Results:
Table (1):Raw Data and Calculations
solvent
thimble's
weight (g)
3.3
3.7
4.1
3.9
No. of cycles
3
6
9
12
olive cake
weight(g)
14.6
13.8
12.4
12.8
final weight(g)
13.5
12.4
11.1
11.6
oil fraction
0.301369863
0.369565217
0.435483871
0.3984375
0,5
0,45
0,4
oil fraction
0,35
0,3
0,25
0,2
0,15
0,1
0,05
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
No. of cycles
6
7
8
Figure (1): Oil Fraction Vs Number of Cycles
9
10
oil %
8%
10%
10%
9%