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- Title
Rapid determination of free fatty acids in vegetable oils by gas liquid chromatography.
- Authors
Williams, M.; Macgee, J.
- Abstract
Determination of the free fatty acids in small quantities of vegetable oil is accomplished by gas liquid chromatography. The free fatty acids are isolated from a hexane solution of the vegetable oil into an aqueous solution of trimethylphenylammonium hydroxide (TMPH). Due to the alkalinity of TMPH, the free fatty acids readily partition into this aqueous phase. Injection of the free fatty acid-TMPH salts into a gas chromatograph results in pyrolytic methylation of the free fatty acid salts-yielding the methyl esters. Excellent results were obtained when this new procedure was used on neutral lipid oils containing known amounts of free fatty acids and compared with the results obtained by a modified BF/MeOH esterification procedure. When compared to the AOCS titration procedure, this new procedure gave comparable results. This new procedure has advantages over the AOCS procedure: it is more sensitive and gives quantitative results for individual free fatty acids. This new procedure also has several advantages over the modified BF/MeOH esterification procedure: it is easily and more rapidly performed, there is no deposition of glyceride on the column when the sample is injected, and because there is quantitative recovery, the new procedure is more sensitive and can be used on oils with a low weight percentage of free fatty acids.
- Publication
Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (JAOCS), 1983, Vol 60, Issue 8, p1507
- ISSN
0003-021X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02666572