Business Profile
- Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of substances from plant raw materials (oils, resins, dyes, etc.).
- Study of the qualitative and quantitative composition of plant extracts.
- Fractionation of extracts obtained by supercritical extraction.
- New technologies using supercritical fluids: micronization, encapsulation, catalytic processes, pyrolysis, oxidation in supercritical water.
Apparatus
- Laboratory installation for solubility and phase equilibrium studies in supercritical carbon dioxide:
- Measuring cell 30 mL, p to 1000 bar, t to 200°C.
- Supercritical solids-supercritical carbon dioxide extraction plants:
- Laboratory installation: 1 L extractor (0.6 L basket), p to 1000 bar, t to 200°C.
- Quarter plant: 20 L and 40 L extractor, p up to 400 bar, t up to 90°C.
- Semi-technical installation: two extractors of 40 L each, p to 1000 bar, t to 90°C.
- Laboratory installation for extraction and micronization using supercritical carbon dioxide:
- Extractor 1 L, p to 500 bar, t to 200°C.
- The ability to implement the RESS (Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solutions) process.
- Ability to implement the SAS (Supercritical Antisolvent) process.
- Laboratory installation for the study of catalytic reactions in a supercritical carbon dioxide environment:
- Extractor 0.25 L, p to 450 bar, t to 450°C.
- The possibility of administering hydrogen.
- Laboratory plant for supercritical water oxidation and high-pressure superheated water extraction:
- Extractor 0.25 L, p to 315 bar, t to 500°C.
- Possibility of administering H2O2.
- Distillation plants:
- Thin film distillation plant under high vacuum conditions.
- Vacuum distillation plant with rectification column.
- Chromatography and spectroscopy:
- Thermo Scientific’s ACCELA 1250 liquid chromatograph with UV-Vis detector.
- Agilent liquid chromatograph with UV-Vis and fluorescence detector.
- JASCO V-650 type UV-Vis spectrophotometer.
- GC/MS Chromatograph.
- GC/TOF-MS chromatograph with time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
- IR spectrophotometer.
- Other apparatus:
- Laboratory kit for extraction of plant raw materials by Waters.
- Encapsulator.
- Evaporator.
- Lyophilizer.
- Sachemaker.