Extraction of Orange Peel Oil With Decantation Method
Hello dear steemian, tonight i feel a bit healthier than yesterday, So, i have a chance to create a post. Previously, I will explain some process about essential oil extraction from orange peel, in this process involve decantation and distillation. Actually, there are several way to extract essential oil, in this post i will explain some distillation with solvent evaporation method. Lets to the point.
Blend of Orange Peel
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Decantation of Peel and Ethanol
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The solution of decantation process introduced into the distillation flask, The ethanol must be evaporated to obtain essential oils, the temperature used is 60oC, because at this temperature ethanol will evaporate and leave the essential oil in the flask, the evaporation process of all ethanol takes 11 hours, from 800 mL of mix solution. What is distillation mean ?
Solvent Evaporation
"Distillation is a method of chemical separation based on difference velocity or volatility of materials."
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Chemical of Orange Peel
Orange peel oil can be used as a mosquito coil, its oil extraction process as I have explained above, there are some sources told, they insert the peel into electric mosquito repellent, I think this method is less effective, because after 1 hour orange peel will dry on electric mosquito repellent.
The orange contains vitamin C, and its peel contains essential oils that can be used to scent the room, this happens because orange peel contains aromatic ingredients, the quality of its essential oil influenced by aromatic structure, some chemicals in orange peel can be seen in table following.
Chemical | Percentage |
---|---|
Limonene | 95% |
Myrcene | 2% |
Noctanal | 1% |
Pinene | 0,4% |
Linanool | 0,3% |
Decanal | 0,3% |
Sabiene | 0,2% |
Geranial | 0,1% |
Neral | 0,1% |
Dodecanal | 0,1% |
Others | 0,5% |
Conclusion
In any extracts of essential oils, the choice of solvent should take precedence, since solvent evaporation at high temperatures could destroys the aromatic chain, thus, giving effect of essential oil quality.
Source
DistillationWikipedia
DecantationWikipedia
Extraction of Orange Peel My Thesis
Data Source Inggritmemo
Oil Extraction Refference media.neliti
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Really excellent post!!!
very nice and cool post.
thank you for share.
feedback and comment are expected, ;)
is this also the way you should make cannabis oil? Ithink it will be hard just to make thc or cbd oil, but complete cannabis oil?
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Very nice post. I like it