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Indoor and Built Environment, Vol. 9, No. 3-4, 228-232 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X0000900312

Characterisation of Gas Phase Organic Emissions from Hot Cooking Oil in Commercial Kitchens

W.M. To

Departments of Mechanical Engineering

L.L. Yeung

Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Christopher Y.H. Chao

Departments of Mechanical Engineering

A large quantity of oily fumes is generated in fast food and Chinese restaurants from cooking oil kept at a high temperature in the kitchens. If these oily fumes are not properly abated, they can be a major source of organic emissions in some dense urban areas with a lot of res taurants such as found in Hong Kong. In the present study, the most commonly used cooking oil, peanut oil, was kept at 260°C in an environment typical of a com mercial kitchen that consisted of a two-burner stir-frying cooking range, a single-tank electric fryer, a baffle-type grease extractor and an exhaust duct. Air samples were collected at the inlet of the grease extractor and the exit of the exhaust duct. Organic material was extracted from these samples and examined by gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. A new ex traction protocol using a Soxhlet apparatus and freshly distilled chloroform as the solvent was established in this study. It was noticed that there was no appreciable breakdown of the oil composition at the temperature studied. The efficiency of the grease extractor was deter mined by obtaining the relative concentrations of gas phase organic composites at the sampling positions.

Key Words: Cooking oil • Kitchens • Organic emissions • Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry


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