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    The Effect of Optimizing the Stripping and Drying Parameters During Industrial Extraction on the Physicochemical Properties of Soybean Oil
    (MDPI AG, 2025-02-14)
    Toktam Mohammadi-Moghaddam
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    Hamid Bakhshabadi
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    Abolfazl Bojmehrani
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    VALDES ALARCON, MARCOS EDUARDO  
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    MORSHEDI, AFSANEH  
    Soybean oil is the second most consumed vegetable oil worldwide and is recognized as a source of heart-healthy polyunsaturated fatty acids. Optimizing the extraction process in the oil industry is essential for both economic and environmental sustainability. This research aimed to determine the optimal conditions for various extraction parameters—stripper temperature (110–140 °C), stripper pressure (150–210 mbar), and dryer pressure (60–120 mbar)—and their effects on the physicochemical properties of soybean oil. These properties include oil-insoluble fine substances, acidity, the color index, peroxide value, oxidative stability, and moisture content. The results indicated that the stripper temperature significantly influenced oil-insoluble fine substances, acidity, the color index, and peroxide value (p < 0.05). The optimal conditions for oil extraction were found to be a stripper temperature of 110 °C, a stripper pressure of 150 mbar, and a dryer pressure of 120 mbar. Under these conditions, the oil-insoluble fine substances, acidity, the color index, peroxide value, oxidative stability, and moisture content of soybean oil were in the ranges of 0.2–0.58%, 0.63–1.15%, 4.3–5.5, 0.67–1.23 meqO2/kg, 3–5.5, and 0.05–0.11%, respectively. These findings provide valuable insight for optimizing soybean oil extraction processes to enhance quality and efficiency. Future advancements in industrial oil extraction are expected to focus on integrating efficient, eco-friendly technologies and enhancing precision through automation and data analytics to optimize yield and minimize waste.
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    Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Cooking Dynamics in Industrial Sesame Seed Oil Extraction
    (United Scientific Group, 2024-10-01)
    Hamid Bakhshabadi
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    Alireza Ghodsvali
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    Abolfazl Bojmehrani
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    Mohammad Ganje
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    Toktam Mohammadi-Moghaddam
    Sesame seeds are a significant source of vegetable oil and were among the earliest grains used for oil extraction. In this study, aimed at designing an industrial-scale process for extracting oil from sesame seeds, we investigated three cooking temperatures (75°C, 90°C, and 105°C) and three different moisture contents of the seeds leaving the cooking pot (4.5%, 5.5%, and 6.5%). The study focused on several responses: the oil content of the pressed cake, the quantity of extracted oil, the protein and moisture contents of the resulting meal, and the percentage of insoluble fine particles in the extracted oil. To predict these responses, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was employed. Among the various backpropagation feedforward networks with different topologies studied, the configuration with 2 input nodes, 5 hidden nodes in one layer, and 5 output nodes was selected based on its high correlation coefficient (R² = 0.997) and low mean squared error (MSE = 0.0002). The sigmoid hyperbolic tangent activation function was used, and the Levenberg-Marquardt learning algorithm with 1000 learning cycles was identified as the optimal neural model. The selected optimized models demonstrated high R² ≥ 0.97 during the evaluation of their results.