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Supercritical Fluid Extraction Of Valuable Chemicals: Application Of Microalgae And Pyrolysis Oil As Feedstocks, Osariemen Ogbeide
Supercritical Fluid Extraction Of Valuable Chemicals: Application Of Microalgae And Pyrolysis Oil As Feedstocks, Osariemen Ogbeide
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In this dissertation, pure and modified carbon dioxide were used as non-conventional solvents for the investigation of lutein, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b extraction from microalgae and for caffeine extraction from the pyrolysis oil of spent coffee grounds. The use of toxic organic solvents in supercritical fluid extraction has propelled research efforts to develop new solvents that are environmentally friendly and provide faster extraction compared to conventional extraction processes. For this reason, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), a major phospholipid consisting of 14% of the entire soybean lecithin was acetylated with acetic anhydride, providing a surfactant (N-A-PE).
Then, the synthesized N-A-PE was employed as …