The Production and Treatment of Vegetable Oils - Including Chapters on the Refining of Oils, the Hydrogenation of Oils, the Generation of Hydrogen, Soap Making, the Recovery and Refining of Glycerine, and the Splitting of Oils #229553

Everything connected with the recovery and treatment of vegetable Oils has received a great stimulus from the conditions brought about by the war. The industry is spreading or showing signs of spreading in many directions, and great as its importance in this country has been in the past, it is safe to prophesy that in the immediate future it will be greater still. It is hoped that this volume will do something towards assisting those interested or likely to become interested in the industry to understand the construction and working of the principal machines and plant which it depends upon. Sufficient information, it is believed, is given regarding the chemical and commercial aspects of the matter to make the book, although written from the engineer's standpoint, a more or less general treatise on the vegetable oil industry. The chapters which follow originally appeared as a series of articles in The Engineer. In planning this series it was at one time hoped to include in it sections devoted to certain aspects of the industrial employment of vegetable oils, notably on the employment of such oils in the manufacture of linoleum and margarine. While there is much of engineering interest in both these branches of industry it was found that a considerable degree of secrecy was preserved regarding the machinery employed in the former, while the machinery for the latter came almost, if not quite, exclusively from abroad, notably from Holland. These reasons and the exigencies of space, compelled. A considerable restriction in the account of the industrial employment of vegetable oils.