Isolation of carotenes from palm oil mill effluent and its use as a source of carotenes

摘要: Huge amount of palm oil mill effluent (POME) is generated from industry in Malaysia. POME highly polluting wastewater which organic nature and contains carotenes that need to be treated before discharge. Growing awareness prevent pollution increasing importance has required transformed into valuable products. In this study, was retrieved by solvent extraction were isolated adsorption chromatography. Synthetic adsorbent with silica-based material used the column Different types solvents chromatography evaluated on recovery carotene. Column temperature loading also studied. Isolation extracted increased carotene concentration oil. Carotene varied 47 92% depending chromatographic conditions. successfully concentrated about 70 times process.