SOYBEAN OIL

Its other name is Chinese bean oil or soy oil

CHARACTERISTICS

• Soyabean oil  is a yellow colored fixed drying oil

SOLUBILITY

• Easily soluble in carbon disulfide, alcohol, ether, chloroform

DENSITY

• 0.924 to 0.929

MELTING POINT

• 22 to 31 C

REFRECTO INDEX

• 1.4760 to 1.4775

FREEZING POINT

• -15 to -8 C

IODINE VALUE

• 137 to 143

FLASH POINT

• 282 C

HAZARDS

• Explosive but harmless

AUTO IGNITION TEMPERATURE

• 445 C

SOURCE

• Obtained from soy beans.
• Edible soybean oil is purified by using fuller’s earth. Whereas the technical grade oil cleansed by chemicals

GRADES

• Refined, crude, clean and hydrogenated

Soyabean oil Uses

• It is used in soap making, high protean food, paint and varnish making

• Animal food, alkyd resins, margarine, printing ink and plasticizer making