Extraction of olive oil with supercritical carbon dioxide / Ilana Geerdts

The principal objective of this study was to extract olive oil from the fruit of Olea europaea by means of supercritical carbon dioxide (sc-C02) as an alternative to traditional methods. Extractions were performed on a laboratory scale supercritical fluid extractor of the latest design, featuring th...

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Main Author: Geerdts, Ilana
Published: North-West University 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1042