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US 5,178,735 AGranted
Process for the supercritical extraction and separation of solid samples
AssigneeChlorine Engineers Corp., Ltd.
InventorsAkiyoshi Manabe, Tetsuro Yamashita, Katsuhisa Harada, Tsuneo Tokumori, Yoko Sumida
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Abstract
A method of extracting and separating substances contained in a solid sample, especially from ginkgo leaves, which comprises introducing a supercritical fluid into a dispersion in which the solid sample is dispersed, separating the supercritical fluid containing dissolved substances to be extracted.
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A process for extracting substances contained in a solid sample, which comprises:
- a. Preparing a dispersion f a solid sample to be treated in an organic dispersion fluid, said solid sample being an extract derived from ginkgo leaves.
- b. extracting undesirable components from said dispersion of solid sample by treating said dispersion of solid sample in an extractor with a fluid in a supercritical state together with an entrainer fluid while maintaining said solid sample in a dispersed state for a time necessary to obtain the desired extraction of substances from said solid sample;
- c. continuously recovering said fluid in a supercritical state containing dissolved undesirable substances from said extractor while treating said dispersion of solid sample in said extractor as provided in step b;
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- d. recovering said solid sample from said extractor after completion of the extraction treatment thereof.
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A process for extracting substances contained in a solid sample, which comprises:
- a. preparing a dispersion of a solid sample to be treated in an organic dispersion fluid;
- b. extracting undesirable components from said solid sample by treating said dispersion of solid sample in an extractor with an extracting fluid in a supercritical state while maintaining said solid sample in a dispersed state for a time necessary to obtain a desired extraction of undesirable substances from said sample;
- said solid sample being maintained in a dispersed state by continuously feeding an entrainer fluid with said extracting fluid to said extractor while treating said dispersion of solid sample with said extracting fluid in a supercritical state;
- c. continuously draining said extracting fluid in a supercritical state containing dissolved undesirable components from said extractor while treating said dispersion of solid sample in said extractor by means of step b;
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- d. after completion of the extraction treatment of said dispersion of solid sample, feeding said extracting fluid in a supercritical state into said dispersion of solid sample without an entrainer fluid added therewith, draining said organic dispersion fluid from said dispersion of solid sample and recovering said solid sample from said extractor.
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