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EXTRACTION OF
WAX FROM COCOA POD
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
The word wax
describes a large variety of substances of plant and animal origin, as well as
man made products which are mostly petroleum derivatives.
However, natural
waxes are not single substances, but a mixture of various of long-chain fatty
acids and a variety of other constituents, depending on their origin.
Each wax therefore
has unique physical and chemical characteristics which are exploited in a
multitude of applications.
The increasing
important of raw materials together with the complexity of modern technology
for their production, processing, collection, distribution, quality control,
marketing, utilization and extractions hould not be overemphasized.
For the course of
study, which is extraction of wax from cocoa pod, it is vital to understand the
physical properties, compositions and characteristics of waxes so that maximum
efficiency will be achieved while carrying out the practical.
The characterization
of waxes for industrial or domestic use is physic-chemical rather than
structural. Although all waxes, possess the same characteristic physical
properties of feel, consistency, melting point and water disability. It
physical characteristic of water insolubility, made it good for use in coatings
of paper, wood, textiles, metal fruits and vegetables; to protect against
moisture, chemical and mechanical damage to food packaging. For the fact that
it serves as an ingredient in diverse materials, its uses has increased over
the years with industrialization. It is obvious that wax has so many functions
and uses than other material. For this reason many investigations ahs been
carried out into the production of wax from vegetable, plants such as grass
sugar-cane cotton orange, jojobus feed, palm leaf, cocoa pod etc.
Initially all
quantity of products made of wax being consumed in Nigeria were mainly from
oversea countries. At this time of economic diversification, there is need for
us to embark upon our locally made raw material. For this reason plants which
are available in the country are being research on as source of producing wax
and this helps us to make use of our local raw material which had been left out
and neglected.
It is because of this
that the work in question has been indicated, with the purpose of finding
locally available source of producing wax as that contained in cocoa pod. For
this work, comparisons were made with the yield of wax produced from cocoa pod
with that of other similar vegetable plants. Also comparison were made with the
physical properties of wax from cocoap pod and other waxes. The properties
compared are moisture content, melting point, characterization point and
refractive index.
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