Essential Oil Extraction, Scalability Concerns, and Process Intensification: A Comprehensive Guide

This book provides insights into essential oil extraction research with a special interest in the scalability concerns of each extraction method and their techno-economic concerns. It includes advancements and prognosis for the optimal extraction of essential oils from laboratory to pilot, then to industrial scale. It overviews and identifies sustainable options and proposes improvements to the currently available technologies in essential oil extraction. Features: • Focuses on extraction technology of essential oils and scalability concern of essential oil extraction. • Presents robust elucidation on essential oil production, current market value, and demand. • Reviews feasibility studies and consideration of essential oil production processes. • Recent advancements in oil extraction methodologies and process intensification techniques for optimizing nutraceutical recovery. • Emphasizes process optimization control parameters, and addresses environmental sustainability concern in essential oil extraction. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in separation and purification processes, process intensification, and agricultural feedstocks.