Hydrodistillation condition adjustment for different material particle sizes: a method to increase batch‐to‐batch quality consistency. (27th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wei, Danni; Cheng, Guilin; Huang, Kaiyi; Fang, Jinyang; Yan, Binjun
• Is Part Of: International journal of food science & technology. Volume 53:Number 5(2018)
• Page Start: 1140
• Page End: 1148
• Publication Date: 2017-11-27
• Subjects: Adjusted process parameter -- extraction -- feedforward control -- Fructus Gardeniae -- hydrodistillation -- particle size -- plant material -- quality consistency -- Radix Curcumae -- statistical model; Food industry and trade -- Periodicals; 664
• DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.13688
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-5423

Abstract

Summary: Varying material particle sizes represent a common contributing factor to the batch‐to‐batch variation of extraction yields. To increase the batch‐to‐batch quality consistency of extracts, a method was proposed to adjust the extraction conditions for different material particle sizes, taking the hydrodistillation extraction process of Radix Curcumae and Fructus Gardeniae as a case study. Statistical models were built for five sesquiterpenes including curcumenone, curcumenol, curdione, curzerenone and furanodienone, to quantitatively describe the effects of particle size and process parameters on their extraction yields. An increase in sodium chloride concentration remarkably increased the yields of curcumenone and curcumenol, and a larger solvent‐to‐solid ratio increased the yields of five sesquiterpenes. Under the adjusted process parameters for two different particle sizes, the yield for each compound was controlled to fall in the 90–110% target range. The proposed method can be applied to various extraction processes of foods and herbal medicines. Abstract : Extraction condition adjustment for different material particle sizes to increase the batch‐to‐batch quality consistency of the extracts.