The Bleaching Of Palm Oil Using Activated Charcoal

ABSTRACTThis project work is on the bleaching of palm oil using activated charcoal.The charcoal used for this work was made from pieces of animal bone by carbonization method.  It was then activated into two different samples.  Firstly, the basic sample was activated using anaphoric acid (H2 s04) while the other was activated by just heating as a control for the experiment; both at a constant temperature of 5000c and approximate time of 2hours. They were both size reduced into fines and sieved into particle 3ye of 150um portion of the crude palm oil was degummed and neutralized …