This work is focused on the chemical characterization of Maytenus ilicifolia extracts obtained from high-pressure CO2 extraction. The experiments were performed in a laboratoryscale unit, where the effect of particle size (35-200mesh), CO2 mass flow rate (1 to 3gmin), temperature (293 to 323K), pressure (100 to 250bar), and extraction time was investigated in terms of liquid yield and chemical ...

Conventional methods for extraction of the active constituents from herbal plants, in addition to their high processing costs, are harmful to the environment owing to their time and energy consumption, uncontrollable parameters, use of toxic and dangerous solvents, loss of the extract, thermal instability, the contamination of the product with organic solvents and the loss of water-soluble comp...

One of the most important environmental concerns for the polymer industry is to produce new products with near-zero residual monomer content. A new process based on supercritical CO2 has been successfully tested for the extraction of the residual monomer and the simultaneous micronization of the polymer. The process has been tested on a pilot-scale plant. The reduction of methyl methacrylate (M...

Supercritical CO2 extraction was employed to separate simulated and real bio-oils. Effects of extraction pressure, temperature and adsorbents on distribution coefficient (or enrichment coefficient) of five representative compounds were investigated using a simulated bio-oil, which was composed of acetic acid (AC), propanoic acid (PA), furfural (FR), acetylacetone (AA) and 2-methoxyphenol (MP). ...

ABSTRACT A platform is proposed for the extraction of nutraceuticals ingredients from natural products, which includes the following three processes: 1. Single-stage extraction using scCO2 (supercritical CO2). 2. Single-stage extraction using of high-pressure hot water and /or hot water with scCO2. 3. Multistage extraction, with counter-currently contact between scCO2 and H2O with the raw mater...

Guayule (Parthenium argentatum) a shrub native to Mexico, is now being acclimated in Europe as a potential crop. The main extractible fractions are polyisoprene (similar to Hevea rubber) for producing tires and allergy-free gloves and resin (GRe). This work deals with valorising this last fraction, after water-based extraction of the latex. To date GRe has not been extensively investigated, in ...

Seeds were collected from locally and naturally grown Chinese tallow trees (CTT) and characterized for general physical and chemical properties and fatty acid composition of the lipids. The effects of four different solvents (petroleum ether, hexane, diethyl ether, and 95 % ethanol) and two extraction methods (supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) and conventional Soxhlet) on the properties of ...

In this work, our objective was to examine methods for processing cashew nut shell liquid and cashew shell with carbon dioxide and water. Supercritical CO2 was applied for extraction of split cashew shells and near-critical water was applied for reaction of the cashew shell material. In the extractions, it was found that a pressurization-depressurization step that was approximately 1 h gave ext...

23 The supercritical CO2 extraction of four different plants from Lamiaceae family, 24 namely oregano (Origanum vulgare), thyme (Thymus zygis), sage (Salvia officinalis) 25 and rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) was carried out in an experimental pilot-plant 26 comprising an extraction cell of two liters capacity. 600 g of leaves of each plant 27 material, with the same pre-treatment, were extra...

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) provides an environmentally green technique to decontaminate chromium species from solid matrices using supercritical fluid carbon dioxide (ScCO2). Methanol and a small amount of water were found to significantly improve the extraction efficiency. The fluorinated chelating agent lithium bis(trifluoroethyl)-dithiocarbamate (LiFDDC) was effective in removing C...