evaluation of a locally made corn germ oil extracting machine in Bangladesh
Corn kernel is made up of the endosperm essentially fermentable starch the germ (non-fermentable) and the bran, accounting for 80, 13 and 7% of the total weight, respectively
Oil extraction. Corn germ oil was extracted from milled corn germ using diluted aqueous ethanol as solvent. Batch extractions were carried out in 500 mL glass reactor vessels which were series connected with a constant temperature