Extraction with Water‐in‐Carbon Dioxide Microemulsions: A Case Study on Steviol Glycosides

Autor: Ola F. Wendt, Jingwen Cui, Irene Rodríguez-Meizoso, Margareta Sandahl
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. 22:1505-1514
ISSN: 1558-9293
1097-3958
Popis: This work explores the use of water-in-supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) microemulsions for the extraction of polar metabolites from plants. Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni leaves and polyethylene glycol trimethylnonyl ether (TMN) surfactants were selected for a case study. A CO2-water-TMN 10 mixture at 35 °C and 30.0 MPa extracted 7 mg target analyte/g dry leaves. The extraction was proven to occur due to a water-surfactant liquid solution rather than a water-in-CO2 microemulsion. Using a modified extraction setup, the microemulsion was created prior to extraction. TMN 6 was able to dissolve enough water in CO2 to extract steviol glycosides, in detectable but very small amounts.
Databáze: OpenAIRE