Open AccessEssential Oil from A Satisfying Evening Flower with Enfleuration Process
Author(s) -
Ni Ketut Sari,
A. Erydani,
N. J. Imannuril,
Dira Ernawati,
Widi Wurjani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1569/4/042085
Subject(s) - essential oil , yield (engineering) , evening , horticulture , mathematics , pulp and paper industry , food science , botany , chemistry , biology , materials science , engineering , composite material , physics , astronomy
A Satisfying evening flower (Polianthes Tuberos) is done concurrently as cut flowers, so that many flowers are rotten and wasted as garbage, the other utilization as essential oil. The influence of adsorbent and texture type Polianthes Tuberos to essential oil yield. The results showed that each adsorbent gave the yield of a mixture of vegetable and animal fat with a water content of 0.21%, the amount of water content indicates the hardness degree of the adsorbent. The essential oil obtained clear yellow, smells typical a very strong of them, does not leave spots on the filter paper and the yield obtained 4.279%. Enfleuration technique is a good technique for the intake of essential oils from flowers