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This work was aimed to study the clarification efficiency of natural decantation in settling tank on virgin olive oil obtained from a two-ways continuous process. For this purpose, the impurities content of the virgin olive oil were monitored during settling process in settling tank at two different depths. Efficiency of purging system was determined for two days. The experiments were performed at industrial scale during three crop years. During the first minutes of settling was observed an ascent of the smaller organic particles of the oil. Then, most of the virgin olive oil impurities were settled at 300 min, independently of the initial content of virgin olive oil. Finally, oil decantation showed slower rate. Higher clarification values were obtained for those decanter oils with higher impurities content, achieving clarification percentages between of 62.69 and 95.91% at 48 h of settling. The highest settling efficiency was observed for those decanter oils with initial higher impurities content. The purging system used in the settling tanks was not able to remove the most of settled impurities since a considerable amount of the impurities remained in the tank after 48 h, between 13.6 and 71.41% for the studied oils. In the tank purges was observed important oil losses. Therefore, decantation was not an efficient system for oil clarification since its settling capacity varied depending on the initial impurities content and due to the settled impurities can not be removed fully by purging system.
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Abbreviations
- VOO:
-
Virgin olive oil
- SOM:
-
Solid organic matter
- VCS:
-
Vertical centrifugal separator
- CBST:
-
Conical bottom settling tank
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This work was supported by, a fellowship from Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain) associated to the Project FPI-INIA RTA2009-00002-00-0, the Grant CAICEM11-67 with the company Pieralisi España SL and the Project ‘PI 26323’ from ‘Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa’ of the ‘Junta de Andalucía’ (Spain). The authors gratefully acknowledge their financial support.
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Gila, A.M., Bejaoui, M.A., Beltrán, G. et al. Settling of virgin olive oil from horizontal screw solid bowl in static conditions. J Food Sci Technol 54, 2989–2996 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-017-2738-x
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