Products and methods related to the distillation of molecules from aerosols
AssigneeNatural Extraction Systems, LLC
InventorC. Russell Thomas
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Abstract
Various aspects of this disclosure relate to the discovery that converting a solid or a liquid into an aerosol allows the distillation of molecules from the aerosol in seconds at temperatures that are significantly less than the boiling points of the molecules. Various aspects of this disclosure relate to the discovery that mute plants can be extracted at both ambient temperatures and temperatures significantly less than the boiling points of the volatile molecules of the mute plants by capturing the volatile molecules in a solvent such as ethanol.
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A method to separate a molecule from an impurity, comprising:
- providing a composition comprising the molecule and the impurity, wherein the molecule is vanillin, the molecule is present in the composition in a solid phase or a liquid phase, and the impurity is present in the composition in a solid phase or a liquid phase;
- converting the molecule into a vaporized molecule in a gas phase, wherein the vaporized molecule is vanillin, the gas phase has a pressure and a temperature, the pressure of the gas phase is at least 0.5 atmospheres and no greater than 2 atmospheres, the temperature of the gas phase is less than 250 degrees Celsius, the molecule has a boiling point at the pressure and a vapor pressure at the temperature, the pressure of the gas phase is greater than the vapor pressure of the molecule, the boiling point of the molecule is greater than the temperature of the gas phase, and either the impurity lacks a vapor pressure or the impurity has a vapor pressure at the temperature that is less than the vapor pressure of the molecule at the temperature;
- separating the vaporized molecule from the impurity;
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- condensing the vaporized molecule into a condensed molecule, wherein the condensed molecule is vanillin.
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A composition, comprising a gas phase and a condensed phase, wherein:
- the gas phase comprises a molecule;
- the condensed phase comprises the molecule;
- the gas phase has a temperature and a pressure;
- the molecule has a boiling point at the pressure of the gas phase;
- the boiling point of the molecule is greater than the temperature of the gas phase;
- the molecule has a vapor pressure at the temperature of the gas phase;
- the vapor pressure of the molecule is less than the pressure of the gas phase;
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- the condensed phase consists of a solid phase and/or a liquid phase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.