NEW AND EXPANDED USES OF OILSEED PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS

The objectives of this project are to (1)develop new industrial uses for cottonseed products and co-products as alternative fuel additives, biobased lubricants, and concrete-form release agents, (2) develop cost-effective methods for producing gossypol from cottonseed and cottonseed by-products, (3) develop new methods and processes for the conversion of oleic and linoleic acids, the most abundant fatty acids of cottonseed, to branched-chain, conjugated, and hydroxylated fatty acids, and (4) develop cost-effective methods for producing new value-added fatty acid-based products from cottonseed processing by developing new process methods for removing gosssypol and phospholipids from cottonseed oil miscella.