Staple foods, including cereals, legumes, and root/tuber crops, dominate the daily diet of
humans by providing valuable proteins, starch, oils, minerals, and vitamins. Quality …

Hexane extraction is the most common technique used to remove oil from full fat soy
materials in the production of both soy oil and defatted soy. The popularity of hexane is …

Extraction has been used probably since the discovery of fire. Egyptians and Phoenicians,
Jews and Arabs, Indians and Chinese, Greeks and Romans, and even Mayans and Aztecs …

This study highlights the effect of solvent polarity on the yield (Y%) and properties of oil
extracted from Algerian sesame seeds. Extractions were carried out under Soxhlet …

To display the advantages of two-stage intermittent microwave coupled with hot-air (60° C)
drying (IM&AD), different drying methods were compared. The activation power density of …

Recently, the authors proposed a simple method for the extraction of lipid from high-moisture
microalgae by using dimethyl ether (DME) without drying, cell disruption, and heating of the …

The replacement of toxic organic solvents from fossil sources by nontoxic ones from
biorenewable origin in large-scale processes has been a frequent search. Although ethanol …

Membrane processes have proven to be energy-efficient technologies for separation of
various substances, including organic solvents. In this study, crosslinked …

In the study the yield and kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the oil extraction process
from Jatropha curcas L. using ethanol as a solvent were evaluated for different …

An experimental and numerical analysis is presented to investigate the influence of solvent
composition and temperature on mass transfer during soybean oil packed-bed extraction …