Bibliography on molecular or short-path distillation

Molecular distillation of a crude soybean oil

“…The extensive literature on molecular distillation (5,6) reveals that in the field of vegetable fats and oils most workers have used refined oil rather than crude oil as starting material. The desirability of preliminary removal of "break" material is frequently mentioned, while Embree (9) states that molecular distillation cannot be carried out on oils that contain more than traces of phospholipids and muciIaginous matter.…”

Composition and Structural Characteristics of Glycerides in Relation to Classification and Environment.

“…Krafft (188,(190)(191)(192) and others (29,30,32,45) used this procedure extensively to obtain glycerides of low molecular weight, e.g., trilaurin, trimyristin, lauromyristins, etc. The inability to distill glycerides of higher molecular weight limited the use of this procedure until recently, when interest was aroused in molecular distillations (44,62,63,77,95,180,227,272). While the latter technique enables a distillation of high molecular weight materials without decomposition, it has not proved entirely satisfactory for the fractionation of glycerides (95,227,229).…”

The Separation of Natural Components of Fats and Oils by Molecular Distillation.

“…Readers interested in all the modifications of molecular stills described in the scientific and patent literature should refer to the bibliographies on molecular distillation compiled by Detwiler and Markley (10) and Detwiler (9), which give over two hundred references. There will appear soon in this journal a complete review (30) of the history of molecular distillation and of its scientific accomplishments.…”