{"id":488489,"date":"2010-03-30T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2010-03-30T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:50:19","slug":"canadian-scientists-put-the-hex-on-hexane-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488489","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Scientists Put the Hex on Hexane Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7780\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/30\/canadian-scientists-put-the-hex-on-hexane-emissions\/new-process-makes-cooking-oil-without-hexane\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7780\" title=\"New process makes cooking oil without hexane\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/03\/New-process-makes-cooking-oil-without-hexane.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian researchers develop process for making cooking oil without using hexane, a volatile organic compound\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>So who knew? The manufacture of <strong>cooking oil<\/strong> involves <a title=\"hexane on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hexane\" >hexane<\/a>, a solvent that separates the oil from crushed seeds.\u00a0 Hexane is a volatile organic compound found in gasoline.\u00a0 <a title=\"US EPA fact sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ttn\/atw\/hlthef\/hexane.html\" >Hexane is also a degreaser<\/a> used in the printing industry.\u00a0 It dissolves glues, varnishes, and inks.\u00a0 Aside from the ick factor of having the same compound used to dissolve glues and inks pop up in the production of your bake sale items, <a title=\"foodproductiondaily.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Supply-Chain\/US-oilseed-plants-working-to-meet-new-EPA-rules-on-hexane\" >hexane is a pollutant<\/a> that contributes to smog and greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>This is where <a title=\"queens university website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/\" >Queens University<\/a> of Ontario, Canada comes in.\u00a0 Researchers there have discovered <a title=\"Queens University press release on eurekalert.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2010-03\/qu-qup032910.php\" >a new energy efficient way to use the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide<\/a> to help separate oils from seed and vegetable crops including corn, canola, peanut safflower, sunflower, and soybean.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the sustainable twofer we&#8217;re so fond of: a new twist on a conventional process that reduces negative impacts while providing a remedy for additional problems as well.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/30\/canadian-scientists-put-the-hex-on-hexane-emissions\/#more-7779\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=9BAmbG8N1Fg:5fk89gHMH00:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/9BAmbG8N1Fg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So who knew? The manufacture of cooking oil involves hexane, a solvent that separates the oil from crushed seeds.\u00a0 Hexane is a volatile organic compound found in gasoline.\u00a0 Hexane is also a degreaser used in the printing industry.\u00a0 It dissolves glues, varnishes, and inks.\u00a0 Aside from the ick factor of having the same compound used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}