Production of Local Drying Oil from Agricultural Based Biomass for Industrial Usage

This study is aimed at extracting and characterizing local available oils from edible and non-edible seeds, with the view of evaluating their chemical and physical characteristics. With the increasing demand for drying oil by industries added with high import duties from the regulatory agencies, this study is poised in giving detailed descriptions on the significance of these raw-materials that are essential in meeting domestic and industrial demands. These have placed a heavy strain on the foreign exchange position of Nigeria through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The demand for domestic sourced alternatives cannot be over described. The availability of local sourced oils will definitely advance local industries and get ride of high costs of import duties thereby increasing the Gross Domestic Product of Nigeria through economic empowerment in the area of job creation. The drying and semi drying properties of: Huracrepitan oil, Soybean, orange seed, luffa seed oil and crude palm kernel oils were analyzed in the study. The iodine values for Huracrepitan, Soybean, orange seed, luffa seed oil and crude palm kernel oils were: 170.1, 130.6.60, 70.10, 35.80 and 22.37 respectively.From experimental results, HuraCrepitan oil has the highest iodine value among the oils evaluated while palm kernel oil gives the least value. Local paint industries and other allied have been solely depending on linseed and tung oils for drying oil This study revealed the possibility of producing drying oils from Huracrepitan oiland that can be substituted for the imported linseed oil. Keywords: Drying Oil,HuraCrepitan.Iodine Value, Semi-Drying Oil,Soya Bean Oil.