Naslov
Design of SFE system using a holistic approach - problems and challenges

Autori
Jokić, Stela ; Horvat, Goran ; Aladić, Krunoslav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, ostalo

Knjiga
Supercritical Fluid Extraction: Technology, Applications and Limitations

Urednik/ci
Lindy, jason

Izdavač
Nova Publishers

Grad
New York (NY)

Godina
2015

Raspon stranica
95-122

ISBN
978-1-63463-353-6

Ključne riječi
supercritical fluid extraction, process control, system construction

Sažetak
Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) emerged in the last few decades as a promising green technology and a good alternative in food and natural products processing. SFE has proven to be technically and economically feasible with a lot of advantages over the traditional extraction methods with organic solvents. By using carbon dioxide (CO2) as solvent the SFE becomes environmentally friendly process resulting in extracts free of toxic solvents. Today over few hundred commercial plants in the world are using the process of SFE. SFE technology continuously increases its application in different fields and operating extraction conditions have the most influence on the performance of such processes. With the rapid development of SFE technology next generation of extraction plants will begin to emerge in the upcoming years, combining up-to-date technological advances in optimizing SFE process. On this topic, precise controls of various process parameters need to be implemented with highest confidence while retaining simplicity and cost effectiveness of a system. Further on, with the advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) the ability to remotely monitor the extraction process becomes a reality, alongside with the possibility of process data exchange with other plants using Internet. This will result in maximizing production yield and obtaining high quality extracts. By presenting uniform and simple guidelines for the construction of laboratory SFE system an adequate scale-up of laboratory to industrial design purposes becomes a simple task. This chapter highlights on-going problems and challenges in the design and development of a SFE laboratory plant from a bottom-up holistic approach. By proposing holistic approach to the problem the design of SFE system can be formulated as a multidisciplinary problem, encompassing fields such as mechanical engineering, process engineering and electrical engineering into design flow. In this manner various on-going problems in SFE design can be efficiently solved and future scale-up from laboratory to pilot or industrial plants can be simplified.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Elektrotehnika, Prehrambena tehnologija

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