PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING ESSENTIAL OIL FROM CITRUS FRUITS

摘要

Process for recovering essential oil from citrus fruit, in which an oil-water mixt. recovered from an extractor, consisting of ca. 86% water, 10% peel residues, pectin and mucilageous substances. 3% oil emulsion and 1% solid material, is processed in a single centrifuge in which the mixt. is sepd. into three phases of oil, water and mucilageous substances, these phases being withdrawn continuously from the centrifuge drum while the solid residual material (pectin and peel residues) is centrifuged out of the drum discontinuously.