METHOD OF PURIFYING FAT Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: fat-and-oil industry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to cleaning, refining, and reducing fats and oils and can by utilized in production of food fats from inedible fat, including treating fats and oils for medical purposes and for cosmetics production. Fat is mixed with electrolyte, mixture, electrolytically treated, and phases are then separated. According to invention, electrotreatment is performed by passing mixture flow through cathode chamber of flow electrolyzer and process parameters are determined on the basis of acid numbers of raw material and final product. EFFECT: optimized process parameters. 8 cl, 2 tbl