Aqueous extraction process for the recovery of mucilage and demulsification
AssigneeDrei Lilien PVG GmbH & Co. KG
InventorMax Dietz
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of admixing a volume of water in which acid- or base-forming compounds are contained and whose volume fraction is >5% by volume in the ratio to be purified lipid phase and/or in a volume ratio that allows the formation of a water phase in order to separate hydratable mucilage from a lipid phase, to purify a lipid phase and/or to obtain the hydratable mucilages.
Claims32
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A method for purification of a lipid phase and/or for separation of mucilages from a lipid phase comprising the following steps:
- a) providing a lipid phase containing mucilages,
- b) adding and admixing a water phase containing at least one acid- or base-forming compound having a volume ratio of >10% by volume between the volume of the water phase and the total volume of lipid phase and water phase before admixing the water phase,
- b′) spontaneous formation of a free water phase with or without acceleration by warming,
- c) sedimentation-based phase separation of the free water phase containing hydrated mucilages,
- d1) separation of the free water phase containing the hydrated mucilages, and
- d2) separation of the low mucilage lipid phase.
The method for obtaining mucilages from a lipid phase, comprising the following steps:
- a) providing a lipid phase containing mucilages,
- b) adding and admixing a water phase containing at least one acid- or base-forming compound having a volume ratio of >10% by volume between the volume of the water phase and the total volume of lipid phase and water phase before admixing the water phase,
- b′) spontaneous formation of a free water phase with or without acceleration by warming,
- c) sedimentation-based phase separation of the free water phase containing hydrated mucilages,
- d1) separation of the free water phase containing the hydrated mucilages,
- d2) separation of the low mucilage lipid phase, and
- e) removal of the mucilages from the water phase containing the hydrated mucilages and obtaining the mucilages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.