VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSTTY

JNANA SANGAMA, BELAGAVI

PROJECT PHASE-I REPORT ON

“EXTRACTION OF OIL FROM WATERMELON SEEDS”

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the final year

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
IN
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Submitted by
CHANDRASHEKAR 3RB19CH009
MOHD. TALHA 3RB19CH017
ZEESHAN 3RB19CH032
Under the Guidance
Dr. Akhilesh Khapre

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

BHEEMANNA KHANDRE INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY

BHALKI - 585328
2022-2023
 VISVESWARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BHEEMANNA KHANDRE INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY BHALKI-585328

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project Phase-I Entitled “EXTRACTION OF OIL FROM
WATERMELON SEEDS” has been successfully carried out by CHANDRASHEKAR
(3RB19CH009), MOHD. TALHA (3RB19CH017) and ZEESHAN (3RB19CH032) in partial
fulfillment for Bachelor of Engineering in final year Chemical Engineering of Visveswaraya
Technological University, Belagavi, during the academicyear 2022-2023.

Project Guide Head of Department Principal

Dr. AKHILESH KHAPRE Dr. M. A. DEVANI Dr. N. M. BIRADAR

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to express our gratitude to the following people whose constant support helped

immensely in the successful completion of our project.

We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. N. M. Biradar, Principal BKIT for providing

such congenital working environment.

We wish to express our sincere thanks to Dr. M. A. Devani, HOD of Chemical Engineering

and Dr. Akhilesh Khapre, Project guide and all the staff members of Chemical Engineering

Department for the constant encouragement during the completion of the project.

Finally we are grateful to our parents and our friends for motivation and moral support during

the course of our studies.

Cordially,

CHANDRASHEKAR
MOHD. TALHA
ZEESHAN
 ABSTRACT

Watermelon seed is one of the unexplored seed in the world which is often discardedafter eating

the fruit.Seeds contain nutrients like protein, unsaturated fatty acid, predominantly linoleic acid

and vitamins. The watermelon seed oil is used in pharmaceutical, soap etc. In this project,

watermelon seed oil is extracted by solvent extraction process with the use of different solvents

(n-hexane, benzene and mixed solvent system). The effect of parameters like temperature, particle

size, moisture content and solvent selection will be analyzed.

Key Words : Watermelon seed oil, essential fatty acids, linoleic acid, skin care, humectants,

solvent extraction, optimization, moisturizer.

 CONTENTS

CHAPTERS CONTENTS PAGE NO.

1 Introduction 1-2

2 Objective of the work 3

3 Literature survey 4-5

4 Materials and methods 6-9

5 Effect of parameters 10

References 11