Extraction of essential oil at lab scale
Our customer, supplier of rare essential oils for the luxury industry, necessited a lab scale microwave extraction equipment for it’s R&D laboratory …
Compound extraction for cosmectics & pharmaceutical
Microwave technology is revolutionizing compound extraction in the industrial and materials sectors by offering a faster, more efficient, and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional methods. By enabling selective and uniform heating, microwaves enhance extraction yields while preserving the integrity of valuable compounds.
This innovative process is ideal for cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry, treating products like lavanda, rose, agrumes and other vegetals. Compared to traditional techniques, microwave extraction reduces processing time, lowers energy consumption, and minimizes the use of harsh solvents, making it a sustainable solution for modern industries.
Selective effect
An interesting aspect of the microwave-assisted extraction process is the low thermal effect of microwaves on edible oils. Microwaves act selectively on the plant cells, vaporizing the water matrix, causing the breakage of the cells and directly releasing aroma in the microwave cavity. Oil is transparent for microwaves, and it does not undergo thermal heating by the infusion process.
This leads to a high extraction rate while fully preserving the organoleptic and physical-chemical properties of the extracted product, with no thermal alteration.
Improved extraction yield
Microwave-assisted extraction is a process that combines microwaves with traditional solvent extraction when necessary. The microwaves’ selective heating of the solvent and compounds during the extraction process increases the extraction kinetics and considerably increases the yield of the process.
Microwave-assisted extraction offers several advantages over more traditional techniques such as shorter extraction time, lower solvent use, higher compound extraction rates, and an overall lower processing cost.
High processing rate
Our microwave assisted infusion equipment is available in batch or continuous process format. Depending on your production rate, our solutions can process anything from a few kgs to several hundreds of kgs of product per hour.
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