Determination of Fat Content | Fatty Matter of Textile

Fat Content-Fatty Matter of Textile

 

Fat Content/Fatty Matter

Apparatus

  • Drying oven – 105° C
  • Weighing Balance
  • Flat RB flask-250ml
  • Soxhlet Extractors- 250 ml
  • Desiccators
  • Thimbles

Reagent

  • Dichloromethane

Procedure 

Dry the Flat RB flask for half an hour at 105° C. cool for about 20min in Desiccators and weight. Weight 2 gm of sample. Place the sample in a thimble in a Soxhlet extractor with Dichloromethane solvent .siphons at least six times per hour for three hours. Evaporate the extract carefully to dryness in the RB flask on a stream bath. Further dry the contents in the drying oven at 105° C to constant mass. Cool in a desiccators and weight. 

Calculation 

Fat content (%) =  (c-b) * 100 / a

       Where

            a    mass of sample

            b   Oven dry-mass of Flat RB flask

            c   Oven dry-mass of Flat RB flask  with exact


REFERANCE: – IS 199-1989

Author: Aman Kumar Sah

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