Practical Oilseed Protein Products
Term: 3 years, beginning in 2019
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Martin Reaney, University of Saskatchewan/Mitacs
SaskCanola Investment: $149,625
Total Project Cost: $681,375
Funding Partners: Agriculture Development Fund, Mitacs
Project Description
Our proposal describes ethanol and small molecule extraction. This process is similar to hexane extraction used to recover oil but uses potable anhydrous ethanol as the solvent. Our local industries can produce potable anhydrous ethanol and also recover the ethanol after it has been used for extraction. There are many protein sources that could be recovered or improved using this solvent. The province will benefit when these processes by adding value to Saskatchewan crops in Saskatchewan. The province already benefits from processing and the new processing will have similar benefits. In addition, the technologies developed in this work will eventually be transferred to large-scale oil production facilities as they strive to stay commercially viable.
Objectives
Scale up commercial processes to separate oilseed hulls
Scale up low-temperature oil removal from oil seed
Scale up oil separation and refining
Scale up protein enrichment by equeous ethonol
Scale up processing of the meal aqueous rhanol extract
Production of canola sugar, canola ethanol and hull fuel
Scale up oil removal from hulls