One or more techniques are disclosed for a process of preparing a concentrated form of a vegetable-based stearic acid from a plant source. The process may comprise drying and deodorizing a vegetable based emulsion; and further concentrating the resulting fatty acid and triglyceride mix. The process may further comprise distillation of the resulting concentrated fatty acid and triglyceride mix, to separate the free fatty acids from the triglycerides. Additionally, the process may comprise fractional distillation of the free fatty acid distillate, to produce a concentrated from of the stearic acid, separating it from other fatty acids.

Methods and compositions for the production of dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a lipid pathway modification enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a desaturase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing dielectric fluids.

Methods and compositions for the production of dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a lipid pathway modification enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a desaturase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing dielectric fluids.

The present invention relates to processes for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from non-polar lipids in a vegetative plant part. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.

The present invention relates to processes for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from non-polar lipids in a vegetative plant part. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.

The present invention is directed to seed oil compositions that can be used for cooking and frying applications. These oil compositions of the present invention have advantageous stability characteristics. In some embodiments, the oil compositions have a low concentration of -linolenic acid.

The present invention is directed to seed oil compositions that can be used for cooking and frying applications. These oil compositions of the present invention have advantageous stability characteristics. In some embodiments, the oil compositions have a low concentration of -linolenic acid.

Present invention relates to a process for reducing the content of MOSH and/or MOAH from vegetable lauric oil, wherein the process is comprising the step of subjecting vegetable lauric oil to a short-path evaporation, that is performed at a pressure of below 1 mbar, at a temperature in a range of 180 to 270? C., and with a feed rate per unit area of evaporator surface of the shorth-path evaporation equipment in a range of from 10 to 400 kg/h.Math.m2. It relates to the use of short-path evaporation performed at a pressure below 1 mbar, at a temperature in a range of 180 to 270? C., and with a feed rate per unit area of evaporator surface of the shorth-path evaporation equipment in a range of from 10 to 400 kg/h.Math.m2, for reducing the content of MOSH and/or MOAH from vegetable lauric oil.

Present invention relates to a process for reducing the content of MOSH and/or MOAH from vegetable lauric oil, wherein the process is comprising the step of subjecting vegetable lauric oil to a short-path evaporation, that is performed at a pressure of below 1 mbar, at a temperature in a range of 180 to 270? C., and with a feed rate per unit area of evaporator surface of the shorth-path evaporation equipment in a range of from 10 to 400 kg/h.Math.m2. It relates to the use of short-path evaporation performed at a pressure below 1 mbar, at a temperature in a range of 180 to 270? C., and with a feed rate per unit area of evaporator surface of the shorth-path evaporation equipment in a range of from 10 to 400 kg/h.Math.m2, for reducing the content of MOSH and/or MOAH from vegetable lauric oil.

Refrigerated solvent is fed through a cooling jacket around an essential element extraction vessel. After circulating through the cooling jacket, the solvent is re-chilled and at least some of the solvent is passed into the extraction vessel, in which essential elements dissolve into the solvent. Downstream of the extraction vessel, after adsorbent media treatment, the extracted oil and solvent mixture is filtered, in a chilled state, through one or more filtration units. A filtration unit may be a system of vertically oriented filters of decreasing pore size sealed and insulated from the atmosphere. Pressurized gas is used to force the oil and solvent through the filters. Each filter stage has a removable lid, which provides convenient access for replacing the filter cartridge without disturbing the thermally insulated sidewalls of the filter stage.