Essential oil extraction for all: A flexible and modular system for citrus biomass waste

The essential oil industry is a growing sector that generates 5.41 billion USD annually worldwide. Essential oils are widely used in medicine, agriculture, and perfumery. Although there available systems the market for domestic extraction, replacing entire equipment case of repair or malfunction can be costly. To address this problem, pilot-scale extractor system was developed operates through hydrodistillation. This to process various citrus wastes such as green yellow lemons, oranges, grapefruits, Eucalyptus globulus. A factorial design performed, best conditions were extract other biomass residues. GC-MS analysis revealed primary compound orange, grapefruit, lemon D-imonene, with 95.4%, 95.5%, 49.2%, respectively. For appeared D-limonene 73.0% content, though GC/MS data less clear, eucalyptus, it eucalyptol 71.0%. estimated production costs 0.01 USD/mL, 0.04 0.06 0.07 0.15 USD/mL lemon, eucalyptus oils, Therefore, competitive option extraction.