Green Extraction of Natural Products

Extraction processes are essential steps in numerous industrial applications from perfume over pharmaceutical to fine chemical industry. Nowadays, there are three key aspects in industrial extraction processes: economy and quality, as well as environmental considerations. This book presents a complete picture of current knowledge on green extraction in terms of innovative processes, original methods, alternative solvents and safe products, and provides the necessary theoretical background as well as industrial application examples and environmental impacts. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and the strong focus on green chemistry throughout the book makes this book a unique reference source. This book is intended to be a first step towards a future cooperation in a new extraction of natural products, built to improve both fundamental and green parameters of the techniques and to increase the amount of extracts obtained from renewable resources with a minimum consumption of energy and solvents, and the maximum safety for operators and the environment.

Green Extraction: From Concepts to Research, Education and Economical Opportunities
Process Engineering and Product Design for Green Extraction
Tailormade Production of Plants for Green Extraction
Mass Transfer Enhancement for Solid-Liquid Extractions
Fundamentals of Process-Intensification Strategy for Green Extraction Operations
Panorama of Sustainable Solvents for Green Extraction Processes
Supercritical Fluid Extraction: A Solvent with Variable Geometry
Water as Green Solvent for Extraction of Natural Products
Comprehensive exploitation of residues from olive oil, wine, citrus juice and related agriculture
Selective Extraction from Food Plants and Residues by Pulsed Electric Field
Green Extraction of Artemisinin from Artemisia annua L.

• Edited by Farid Chemat
• Edited by Jochen Strube