Supercritical Fluid Technology

Extraction of natural materials with supercritical carbon dioxide

• Extraction equipment
  • Semi-batch extractor
    • extraction cell: 5-1000 ml
    • separation cell: two-stage separator
• Measurement of extraction rate
  • Essential oil
    • peppermint leaf
    • ginger root
    • pepper
  • Vegitable oil
    • tomato seed
    • soybean
  • Anti-oxidant
  • Others
    • carotenoid/carrot
• Modeling of extraction process
  • Diffusion model
  • Shrinking core model
  • Heterogeneous model
  • Model accounting for solute-solid interaction
  • Model accounting for solute-solute interaction

Publications