Extraction of polycosanol from cane vinasse

Abstract

Provided is a process for extracting polycosanol from cane vinasse comprising providing a cane vinasse concentrate, wherein the amount of organic compounds in said cane vinasse concentrate is 35 g/1 or more, and wherein said cane vinasse concentrate is effectively free of solid particles having diameter of 10 μm or higher, performing an ion exclusion chromatography step c) on said cane vinasse concentrate to produce an extract (EC) and a raffinate (RC), performing a concentration step y) on said raffinate (RC) to produce a permeate (PY) and a retentate (RY), and performing a separation step d)ii) on said retentate (RY) to produce a retentate (RDII) that contains polycosanol.

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