A high-pressure extraction technique and its application in seed oil

An experimental apparatus for high-pressure extraction of seed oil was designed and established.At 14～24℃ and about 6 MPa the apparatus was applied to a model system:cloth adsorbed with oil;the extraction results showed the oil could be quickly extracted into liquid carbon dioxide within 40 min at different extraction temperature,indicating the availability of the technique.At 25～40℃ and 0.4～1.0 MPa the apparatus was employed to extract seed oil from unbroken soybean and peanut respectively by using liquefied-gas as the extractant.Moreover,the oil extraction from unbroken soybean and peanut were also investigated at atmospheric pressure by using conventional hexane as the extractant.The oil yields obtained from the same material by the two methods were compared and analyzed.Results showed that hexane as solvent for extracting soybean at the boiling point of hexane with the extraction rate of 2.88% was more favorable than liquefied-gas implemented at high pressure;liquefied-gas as the solvent at high pressure for extracting peanut at 40℃with the extraction rate of 4.91% was better than hexane.