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AOCS Processing Division
Newsletter November 2007

Processing News

Tentative Technical Program for Seattle 2008

The next AOCS meeting will be held May 18-21, 2008 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, WA. The Tentative Technical Program sponsored by the Processing Division is as follows:

Monday, May 19

1. Morning Session—Processor Topics
   Chair—Jerry Strickland
2. Afternoon Session—Processor Topics
   Chair—Jim Willits/ Mike Snow

Tuesday, May 20

1. Morning Session—Hot Topics
   Chair—Ramanathan Narayanan / Bryan Yeh
2. Afternoon Session—Exhibitors Session
   Chair—Ted Neuman/ Roberto Berbessi

Wednesday, May 21

1. Morning Joint Session with Agricultural Microscopy
   Chair—Nurhan Dunford
2. Afternoon Session—Submitted Papers
   Chair—TBD

Poster Session
Chair—Tim Gum

Hospitality Suite

In Seattle, the Processing Division will be hosting a Hospitality Suite on Monday and Tuesday nights. This is an excellent opportunity for networking and catching up with old friends. We are also looking for sponsors for the two evenings. Please contact Ted Neuman at neuman.theodore@wsus.com.

News Articles

Do you have any news or information that you would like to share with fellow Processing Division members? If so, please contact Bryan Yeh at bryan.yeh@ge.com. We will be publishing the Processing Division newsletters three times a year.

Processing Division Officers

For 2007-2008, the following individuals will be serving as division officers for the Processing Division. Please feel free to contact them with any questions or suggestions that you may have:

Chairperson
Ramanathan Narayanan (Nara) rnanayanan@agp.com

Vice Chairperson
Mike Snow mike.snow@bunge.com

Sec./ Treas.
Nurhan Dunford dunford@okstate.edu

Member at Large
Jim Willits jw@desmetusa.com

Member at Large
Bryan Yeh bryan.yeh@ge.com

Member at Large
Tim Gum tgum@aesms.com

Member at Large
Jerry Strickland

Member at Large
Ted Neuman neuman.Theodore@wsus.com

Past Chair
Mike Boyer mboyer@aesms.com

Articles of Interest to Members

In case you missed these, here is a list of articles that have appeared this year in inform that may be of interest to our members (page number, title).

303 Biofuels vs Food

385 Biofuel production effects

403 The battle over hydrogenation

432 Biodiesel Standards

594 Real world experience from a small biodiesel production facility

639 NuSun oil—success and challenges

Here are some articles from recent issues of the Journal of American Oil Chemists Society (JAOCS) that may be of interest to you (page number, title).

421-426 Formation of Granular Crystals in Margarine with Excess Amount of Palm Oil

433-442 Industrially Produced trans Fat in Foods in Australia

474-478 Temperature Effects on the Deacidification of Mixtures of Sunflower Oil and Oleic Acid

557-563 Frying Performance of No-trans, Low-Linolenic Acid Soybean Oils

579-585 The Influence of Tocopherols on the Oxidation Stability of Methyl Esters

587-596 Process Technology for the Production of Micronutrient Rich Red Palm Olein

603-608 Sunflower—Oil Wax Reduction by Seed Solvent Washing

609-612 Low-trans Spread and Shortening Oils via Hydrogenation of Soybean Oil

693-700 Downstream Process for Aqueous Enzymatic Extraction of Rapeseed Oil and Protein Hydrolysates

717-726 Enzymatic Interesterification of Extra Virgin Olive Oil with a Fully Hydrogenated Fat: Characterization of the Reaction and Its Products

785-792 Separating Oil from Aqueous Extraction Fractions of Soybean

937-943 Synthesis of Biodiesel from Canola Oil Using Heterogeneous Base Catalyst

Also in this newsletter:

Chairperson's Corner

Tribute: Dick Farmer, 1941—2007

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