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Article

Downscaling of Industrial Turbo-Distillation to Laboratory Turbo-Clevenger for Extraction of Essential Oils. Application of Concepts of Green Analytical Chemistry

by
Sandrine Périno
1,*,
Zoubida Chemat-Djenni
2,
Emmanuel Petitcolas
1,
Christian Giniès
3 and
Farid Chemat
1
1
Green Extraction Team, UMR 408, Avignon University, INRA, F-84000 Avignon, France
2
Laboratoire d’Analyse Fonctionnelle des Procédés Chimiques (LAFPC), Département Génie des Procédés, Faculté de Technologie, Université Saad Dahlab Blida 1, 09000 Blida, Algeria
3
MicroNut, UMR 408, INRA, Avignon University, F-84000 Avignon, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Molecules 2019, 24(15), 2734; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24152734
Submission received: 29 May 2019 / Revised: 18 July 2019 / Accepted: 26 July 2019 / Published: 27 July 2019

Abstract

In the effort of innovation towards green analytical chemistry concepts and considering the six principles of green extraction, the industrial turbodistillation process was downscaled into a laboratory apparatus turbo-Clevenger (TC) for the extraction of essential oils. Turbodistillation is used as an industrial purpose for the extraction of essential oils from hard matrixes such as wood, barks, seeds. In this work, a TC and the conventional technique of hydrodistillation (HD, Clevenger apparatus) are used for the extraction of essential oils from three spices with hard structures (Illicium verum, Schinus terebinthifolius, and Cinnamomum cassia) and are compared. This study shows that the essential oils extracted by TC in 30 min were quantitatively (yield and kinetics profile) and qualitatively (aromatic profile) similar to those obtained using conventional hydrodistillation in 3 h. This process, which gave a reduced extraction time, was perfectly adapted to the extraction of hard matrixes.
Keywords: turbodistillation; downscaling; extraction; essential oil; green analytical chemistry turbodistillation; downscaling; extraction; essential oil; green analytical chemistry

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Périno, S.; Chemat-Djenni, Z.; Petitcolas, E.; Giniès, C.; Chemat, F. Downscaling of Industrial Turbo-Distillation to Laboratory Turbo-Clevenger for Extraction of Essential Oils. Application of Concepts of Green Analytical Chemistry. Molecules 2019, 24, 2734. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24152734

AMA Style

Périno S, Chemat-Djenni Z, Petitcolas E, Giniès C, Chemat F. Downscaling of Industrial Turbo-Distillation to Laboratory Turbo-Clevenger for Extraction of Essential Oils. Application of Concepts of Green Analytical Chemistry. Molecules. 2019; 24(15):2734. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24152734

Chicago/Turabian Style

Périno, Sandrine, Zoubida Chemat-Djenni, Emmanuel Petitcolas, Christian Giniès, and Farid Chemat. 2019. "Downscaling of Industrial Turbo-Distillation to Laboratory Turbo-Clevenger for Extraction of Essential Oils. Application of Concepts of Green Analytical Chemistry" Molecules 24, no. 15: 2734. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24152734

APA Style

Périno, S., Chemat-Djenni, Z., Petitcolas, E., Giniès, C., & Chemat, F. (2019). Downscaling of Industrial Turbo-Distillation to Laboratory Turbo-Clevenger for Extraction of Essential Oils. Application of Concepts of Green Analytical Chemistry. Molecules, 24(15), 2734. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24152734

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