Extraction of oil from tiger nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) with supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2).

• Main Authors: Olusegun, Lasekan, Mohammed, Abdulkarim Sabo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24183/; http://www.elsevier.com/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) was used to extract oil from tiger nuts and the physicochemical properties and the impact of extraction conditions [i.e., temperature (40 °C–80 °C), pressure (20–40 MPa) and time (60–360 min)] on the oil yield were studied. The response surface analysis results...