Evaluation of the extraction process of the essential oil from Cymbopogon schoenanthus with pressurized carbon dioxide

The objective of this work was to study the essential oil extraction process of Cymbopogon schoenanthus Spreg with pressured CO2, and to compare the results with a conventional extraction process. The experiment was conducted at 15°C, 66.7 bar and a medium flow rate of 1.23 g CO2/min, in a f...

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Main Authors: Elisa Maria Bittencourt Dutra de Sousa, Ana Paula Costa Câmara, Wallace Albuquerque Costa, Adriano Cezar J. Costa, Humberto Neves Maia Oliveira, Elisângela Lopes Galvão, Márcia Maria Ortiz Marques
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2005-06-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132005000400028