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Influence of essential oil composition on water distillation kinetics
Author(s) -
Benyoussef ElHadi,
Saibi Sabrina
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
flavour and fragrance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1099-1026
pISSN - 0882-5734
DOI - 10.1002/ffj.3169
Subject(s) - essential oil , chemistry , distillation , steam distillation , composition (language) , extraction (chemistry) , component (thermodynamics) , biochemical engineering , pulp and paper industry , chromatography , biological system , process engineering , thermodynamics , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , biology
The aim of this study was to develop mathematical models for essential oils hydrodistillation on the basis of their components’ contribution taking into account both qualitative and quantitative aspects. This modelling approach was applied to water distillation of essential oils from coriander seeds, aniseeds and eucalyptus leaves. The results showed that the assumption considering the essential oil as a pseudo‐component with constant physical properties, already adopted in several models, is not verified when there is a variation in essential oil composition during the extraction process. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.