Modeling of the relationship between the pressure and yield of biomaterials is an essential issue in supercritical fluid extraction. In this paper, neural networks are proposed for modeling of supercritical fluid extraction. First a three-layer neural network with a fast learning algorithm is used, and its performance is compared to a conventional model of the Peng-Robinson equation of state. A...

Milk fat was fractionated into liquid (m.p. congruent to 12 degrees C), intermediate (m.p. congruent to 21 degrees C) and solid (m.p. congruent to 39 degrees C) fractions by three different processes--melt crystallization, short-path distillation and supercritical CO2 extraction--and the cholesterol content of these fractions determined. Cholesterol was enriched in the liquid fractions from all...

A multi-analyte, multi-matrix method was developed for the routine determination of steroids in animal tissues (skin, meat and fat). After addition of internal standards and sample pre-treatment, the analytes of interest were extracted from the matrix with unmodified supercritical CO2 and trapped directly on an alumina sorbent placed in the extraction vessel (in-line trapping under supercritica...

Ionic Liquids are low melting salts (up to 100° C) and represent a new class of solvents with unusual physico-chemical properties. In the present work ionic liquids have been used as reaction media for the synthesis of phenylacetylphenylglycine and of phenylacetylphenylalanine. 3 ionic liquids: 1-Octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexa fluorophosphate and 1...

We have demonstrated an improved synthesis of a cyclic carbonate of soybean oil (CSO) utilizing supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) as the solvent. Because the mutual solubility of supercritical CO2 and soybean oil is significantly higher than that of gaseous CO2 and soybean oil, our method synthesizes the material in y1/3 of the reaction time reported in the literature. We have also demonstrate...

The response surface methodology using the Box-Behnken design was established to describe supercritical carbon dioxide assisted extraction of phyllanthin from Phyllanthus amarus Schum and Thonn leaves prior to HPLC analysis. The effects of extraction pressure, temperature, modifier concentration and extraction time on the yield of phyllanthin were investigated. By solving the regression equatio...