Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol.200, No.9, 1187-1196, 2013
SUPERCRITICAL CO2 EXTRACTION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN ROSELLE (HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA L.)
The extraction of phenolic compounds from roselle using supercritical CO2 was studied. The supercritical fluid extraction experiments were conducted at a range of pressures from 10 to 24MPa and temperatures of 323.15, 333.15, and 343.15K. The extraction time was 2.5h. Three density-based equations, Chrastil, del Valle and Aguilera, and Mendez-Santiago and Teja, were used to correlate the experimental data. All three equations correlate with the actual the data quite well. The maximum yield obtained from the supercritical extraction experiment was 8.63mg GAE/g dried rosella at 343.15K and 24MPa.