Section outline

  • Students learn the theory and techniques of separating and refining fats and oils from fish.

    • Wet Rendering ～Crude fish oil extraction from fish


    • Leaching and Extraction ～Extraction of total lipids from fish


    • Thin layer chromatography ～Detection of lipid components


    • Column chromatography ~Conditioning and Refining of Methyl fatty acids


    • Gas chromatography ~Analysis of Fatty acid composition