The vegetable oil processing industry involves the extraction and processing of oils and fats from vegetable

sources. The extraction

processes are generally mechanical (boiling for fruits, pressing for seeds and nuts) or involve the use of solvent such as hexane.
Sesame seed has higher oil content (around 50%) than most of the known oilseeds. Sesame oil is generally regarded as high-priced
and high-quality oil.

1-health food for disease

prevention
2-Studies have also shown that
including sesame in the diet can
improve antioxidant capacity
3-Sesame oil is rich in fats, proteins,
carbohydrates, fiber and some
minerals
4-Other uses of sesame oil are that
it is used as a salad or cooking oil,
shortening margarine and soap,
paints, cosmetics, pesticide, and
perfumes
Fig. Process flow Diagram of the Sesame Oil Production

is a screw-type machine that presses oil seeds through a caged

After the seeds were roasted at
barrel-like cavity. Raw materials enter through the head box as different temperatures and
shown on Figure 1 and the waste products exit the other side. durations ,are then crushed to
increase the active surface, or
press the seed before it going to
solvent extraction (leaching) by
adding hexane or any solvent
like acetone to the sesame cake
after pressing. this operation can
extract the residual oil in the
cake.

Types of solvent
The right tube is the oil that extracted
Hexane is relatively inexpensive and produces a high oil yield, the by hexane, the left tube is the oil that
amount of hexane left in the edible oil is in the parts per million extracted using ethanol.
range. hexane has an aliphatic structure which makes it very
miscible with oil.
Ethanol are safer than hexane with lower toxicity and lower
flammability, However, the main constituents of sesame oil are
esters derived from glycerol and aliphatic saturated or unsaturated
fatty acids. The aliphatic structure gives alcohols such as ethanol
and isopropanol a limited solubility.

References:
1. Chelangat, Salome. “World's Leading Producers of Sesame Oil.” WorldAtlas, worldatlas.com. Updated 25 Aug 2017. Accessed 11 Dec 2017.
2. National Nutrient Database, ars.usda.gov. “Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Whole, Dried”. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. Accessed 11
Dec 2017.