The Research Center of Supercritical Extraction Processes is a part of SemiCommercial Research Department.

Universal test and production plant

• two extractors (operating capacity about 2.2 m³ each, diameter 1 m),
• operating parameters: pressure 200-530 bar, temperature up to 100°C,
• production capacity: 600-2000 t/a, based on a raw material, depending on its kind.

Research work

• supercritical extraction of plant raw materials and natural products,
• fractionation of products prepared by supercritical extraction method,
• pre-treatment of raw materials for extraction (i.e. drying, grounding, and granulation of plant materials in inert gas atmosphere).

New technologies

• development of new waste-free technologies with application of supercritical fluids – an offer for various industrial branches: food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and feed.

Extract production

• oleoresins (from ground pods of sweet red paprika),
• multiunsaturated oils (e.g. from strawberry, currant, raspberry, chokeberry, rose, squash, flax, and saw palmetto seeds),
• herbal essential oils (e.g. from fennelflower),
• lecithin from dried hen egg yolks.

Institute provides

• preparation of products according to HACCP system,
• highest product quality,
• product sterility which accounts for long storage time,
• complete analytical documentation of raw materials and products ( Analytical Laboratory of Plant Raw Materials and Products).

The Center was founded as a result of a project co-financed by European Union (Construction of the Research Center of Supercritical Extraction Processes of plant raw materials with CO₂).