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Dielectric relaxation studies of vegetable oils are important for insights into their hydrogen bonding and intermolecular dynamics. The dielectric relaxation and thermo physical properties of triglycerides present in some vegetable oils have been measured over the frequency range of 10 MHz to 7 GHz in the temperature region 25 to 10 °C using a time-domain reflectometry approach. The frequency and temperature dependence of dielectric constants and dielectric loss factors were determined for coconut, peanut, soya bean, sunflower, palm, and olive oils. The dielectric permittivity spectra for each of the studied vegetable oils are explained using the Debye model with their complex dielectric permittivity analyzed using the Havriliak–Negami equation. The dielectric parameters static permittivity (ε 0), high-frequency limiting static permittivity (ε ∞), average relaxation time (τ 0), and thermodynamic parameters such as free energy (∆F τ), enthalpy (∆H τ), and entropy of activation (∆S τ) were also measured. Calculation and analysis of these thermodynamic parameters agrees with the determined dielectric parameters, giving insights into the temperature dependence of the molecular dynamics of these systems.
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Author AAS is thankful to school of physical sciences, S.R.T.M. University, Nanded for providing the research facilities. The author is also thankful to ACK for providing the TDR facility awarded under a major research project by DST, New Delhi.
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Sonkamble, A.A., Sonsale, R.P., Kanshette, M.S. et al. Relaxation dynamics and thermophysical properties of vegetable oils using time-domain reflectometry. Eur Biophys J 46, 283–291 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-016-1165-7
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