Special features of SCF solid extraction of natural products: deoiling of wheat gluten and extraction of rose hip oil



Título del documento: Special features of SCF solid extraction of natural products: deoiling of wheat gluten and extraction of rose hip oil
Revista: Brazilian journal of chemical engineering
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000308749
ISSN: 0104-6632
Autores: 1

2
Instituciones: 1Technical University of Hamburg, Hamburgo. Alemania
2Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg,
Año:
Periodo: Sep
Volumen: 17
Número: 3
Paginación: 329-334
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, aplicado
Resumen en inglés Supercritical CO2 extraction has shown great potential in separating vegetable oils as well as removing undesirable oil residuals from natural products. The influence of process parameters, such as pressure, temperature, mass flow and particle size, on the mass transfer kinetics of different natural products has been studied by many authors. However, few publications have focused on specific features of the raw material (moisture, mechanical pretreatment, bed compressibility, etc.), which could play an important role, particularly in the scale-up of extraction processes. A review of the influence of both process parameters and specific features of the material on oilseed extraction is given in Eggers (1996). Mechanical pretreatment has been commonly used in order to facilitate mass transfer from the material into the supercritical fluid. However, small particle sizes, especially when combined with high moisture contents, may lead to inefficient extraction results. This paper focuses on the problems that appear during scale-up in processes on a lab to pilot or industrial plant scale related to the pretreatment of material, the control of initial water content and vessel shape. Two applications were studied: deoiling of wheat gluten with supercritical carbon dioxide to produce a totally oil-free (< 0.1 % oil) powder (wheat gluten) and the extraction of oil from rose hip seeds. Different ways of pretreating the feed material were successfully tested in order to develop an industrial-scale gluten deoiling process. The influence of shape and size of the fixed bed on the extraction results was also studied. In the case of rose hip seeds, the present work discusses the influence of pretreatment of the seeds prior to the extraction process on extraction kinetics
Disciplinas: Química
Palabras clave: Ingeniería química,
Aceites vegetales,
Extracción supercrítica de fluídos,
Purificación
Keyword: Chemistry,
Chemical engineering,
Vegetable oils,
Supercritical fluid extraction,
Purification
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