Essential Oil Extraction, Scalability Concerns, and Process Intensification

This book provides insights into essential oil extraction research with a special interest in the scalability concerns of each extraction method and their techno-economic concerns. It includes advancements and prognosis for the optimal extraction of essential oils from laboratory to pilot, then to industrial scale. It overviews and identify sustainable options and propose improvements to the currently available technologies in essential oil extraction.

Features: • Focuses on extraction technology of essential oils and scalability concern of essential oil extraction • Presents robust elucidation on essential oil production, current market value, and demand • Reviews feasibility studies and consideration of essential oil production processes • Recent advancements in oil extraction methodologies and process intensification techniques for optimizing nutraceutical recovery. • Emphasizes process optimization control parameters, and address environmental sustainability concern in essential oil extraction.

This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in separation and purification processes, process intensification, and agricultural feedstocks.

Author Biography

Olalere Olusegun Abayomi is an experienced researcher with demonstrated multidisciplinary expertise in Chemical Engineering Science, Food Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Product Development and Process Optimization. He finished his PhD from the University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia under the Department of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering. Before that he obtained his master’s degree in Industrial and Production Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He had his first degree in Chemical Engineering from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

Abiola Ezekiel Taiwo is a Chemical Engineer, Lecturer, and Researcher, a recipient of the National Research Foundation (NRF) and The World Academy of Science (TWAS) African Renaissance Doctoral Fellowship grant at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa between 2016-2019. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa. His research areas of specialization and interests are Artificial Intelligence, Bioprocessing, Data Science, Food Science, and Nutritional Studies, Modeling and Simulation, Process Optimization, and Renewable Energy.

Bernardo Castro Dominguez is an Assistant Professor (Tenured) in Chemical Engineering and lead of the Smart Process Engineering Lab at the University of Bath (UK). His research has focused on the integration of digital technologies for materials discovery and process design and optimization. He was recipient of the prestigious Monbukagakusho Scholarship to pursue his PhD studies at the University of Tokyo (Japan) in the area of Chemical Systems Engineering. He holds a BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah (US).