Supercritical Extraction Research Group

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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.

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