Study on the extraction in microwave field of the essential oils from chilli

摘要

The paper presents a method of extracting essential oils from chili pepper by using the energy of the microwave field. The main objective of this work it is to highlight the possibilities of substitution of all or a part of the current extraction technology with the extraction technology that's uses the microwave energy, and to highlight the existence differences in quality of the extracted oils, in function of chili pepper used.