TY - JOUR AU - Anjaneyulu, B. AU - Satyannarayana, S. AU - Kanjilal, Sanjit AU - Siddaiah, V. AU - Prasanna Rani, K. N. PY - 2017/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A comparative study of solvent and supercritical CO2 extraction of Simarouba gluaca seed oil JF - Grasas y Aceites JA - Grasas aceites VL - 68 IS - 3 SE - Research DO - 10.3989/gya.0214171 UR - https://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/view/1672 SP - e205 AB - In the present study, the supercritical carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) extraction of oil from <em>Simarouba gluaca</em> seeds was carried out at varying conditions of pressure (300–500 bar), temperature (50–70 °C) and CO<sub>2</sub> flow rate (10–30 g·min<sup>-1</sup>). The extraction condition for maximum oil yield was obtained at 500 bar pressure, 70 °C and at 30 g·min<sup>-1</sup> flow rate of CO<sub>2</sub>. The extracted oil was analyzed thoroughly for physico-chemical properties and compared with those of conventional solvent extracted oil. An interesting observation is a significant reduction in the phosphorus content of the oil (8.4 mg·kg<sup>-1</sup>) extracted using supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> compared to the phosphorous content of the solvent extracted oil (97 mg·kg<sup>-1</sup>). Moreover, the content of total tocopherols in supercritically extracted oil (135.6 mg·kg<sup>-1</sup>) was found to be higher than the solvent extracted oil (111 mg·kg<sup>-1</sup>). The rest of the physico-chemical properties of the two differently extracted oils matched well with each other. The results indicated the possible benefits of supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> extraction over solvent extraction of <em>Simarouba gluaca</em> seed oil. ER -