Oils and Fats as Raw Materials for Industry

This new volume emphasizes the sources, structure, chemistry, treatment, modification, and potential applications for oils and fats as raw materials in industry.

Oils and fats can be used as raw materials in many industries including food and agriculture, as surfactants in laundry detergents and cosmetics, as well as in pharmaceuticals. Moreover, unsaturated vegetable oils are also suitable to form epoxides and hence, are important in the manufacturing of paints and adhesives. Limited sources of petrochemicals and their harmful effects on health and the environment also promote the use of naturally occurring oils and fats as biodiesel after some chemical modification. Moreover, a vast variety of nonedible oils that can be obtained from easily cultivable plant species are receiving great interest from researchers because they not only yield cost-effective products but are also proven as a substrate to promote sustainable research.

In this book, the editors will cover all possible industrial applications of the products that are formed using edible and non-edible vegetable oils. Vegetable oils are not a new research area, although they are considered an evergreen or long-lasting topic as most of the research in synthetic chemistry has been carried out on vegetable oils.

Divya Bajpai Tripathy, PhD,?is a full-time professor in the Department of Chemistry, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. She has more than 12 years research and teaching experience, more than 30 research publications to her credit, and two Indian and one published Australian patent. She has received a Woman Scientist Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, India and a Research and Innovation Award from Galgotias University, India.?

Anjali Gupta, PhD,?is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, ITS Management and IT Institute, Ghaziabad, India. She has over 13 years of the areas of bioorganic and synthetic organic chemistry, with ten publications available in these areas.

Pooja Agarwal,?PhD,?is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Galgotias University, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has 15 publications on polymeric and nanomaterials and over 12 years of experience in materials science.

Anuradha Mishra, PhD,?is a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at Gautam Buddha University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has over 30 years of experience teaching at a number of universities across India and has over 150 publications to her name in varying areas of materials science.?

Arvind Kumar Jain, PhD,?is a professor and has been Dean of Student Welfare at Galgotias University in New Delhi, India since 2011. He has 20 years of experience in teaching and research and over fifty publications in many areas of chemistry and nanomaterials, as well as eight patents. He also has eight published patents and has guided a number of PhD candidates.?