New Multifunctional Extraction Tank - Extracting Cocoa Essential Oil from Cocoa Beans

Cocoa oil is an edible oil extracted from cocoa beans, which has a variety of benefits and is a very beneficial edible oil, including heart health protection, improving blood circulation, promoting digestion and immunity, preventing skin aging, protecting vision, preventing diabetes, and promoting hair growth, as well as increasing physical energy and boosting mental performance, helping to alleviate stress and anxiety, among other things.

There are two common extraction methods for cocoa essential oil:
1. Water vapor distillation
Water vapor distillation is a commonly used method for extracting essential oils from plants, with a large volume of distillation equipment, and is simple to operate and low cost. This method is suitable for volatile, can be vaporized with water vapor without being destroyed, and water does not react, and difficult to dissolve in water for the extraction of active ingredients.
Will be fresh or dry treatment of aromatic plant materials into the distiller, add water to heat together, under the action of steam, the essential oils in the plant components and water vapor evaporation, containing essential oils of the water vapor collected by the conduit after cooling the steam will be cooled into a liquid, and then in accordance with the difference in the density of the water and the essential oils are separated out. The use of essential oil components volatile, insoluble in water and do not react with water characteristics, condensation collection, and finally get the essential oil.
2. Solvent extraction
Organic solvent extraction method applies the principle of similarity and compatibility, due to the better solubility of oils and fats in organic solvents, through the full exchange of organic solvents and oils, oils and fats by the oil cells extracted from the method. The leaching method of preparing fats and oils has the advantages of high oil yield, low extraction temperature, high production efficiency, and suitability for large-scale production.
Generally, the solvent and plant material are put into the extractor to mix and extract, so that the volatile substances are dissolved in the solvent; then filtered; subsequently, the filtrate is obtained by evaporating and concentrating the solvent, and the concentrate is called leachate (a mixture of waxes and essential oils); the leachate is dissolved in ethanol, and filtered at a low temperature to remove the impurities; finally, the ethanol is evaporated to obtain the essential oil.

The following is a detailed description of the preparation process of cocoa essential oil.
1. Preparation of raw materials: prepare high-quality cocoa beans, cooking alcohol, distilled water, etc. in advance, wash and dry the cocoa.
2. Crushing: The cocoa beans are crushed, usually using equipment such as a mortar and pestle or a blender, and ground into relatively fine particles for subsequent operation.
3. Quality control: before starting to prepare essential oils, quality control and testing are required to ensure that the quality and purity of the raw materials meet the requirements.
4. Extraction of essential oils: The crushed cocoa beans are put into the extractor and ethanol and other solvents are added for extraction. The extraction time depends on the actual need, usually takes more than a few hours. During the extraction process, the extractor can be heated to increase the extraction speed.
5. Distillation: The extracted solution is subjected to distillation, through which the water and other impurities in the cocoa flavor are separated out to obtain pure cocoa essential oil. This process should be very careful and cautious, pay attention to the distillation time and temperature to ensure that the distillation process is carried out smoothly.

In the process of preparing cocoa essential oil, it is necessary to use high quality cocoa and other raw materials, master certain preparation skills and operation methods, at the same time, high quality and professional essential oil extraction equipment is also essential.

Wenzhou Jinbang Light Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. of the new multi-function stainless steel extraction tank: a variety of styles and specifications, according to customer needs tailored solutions, factory direct sales, low temperature automatic extraction, high efficiency and high quality, professional manufacturers, 30 years of research and development experience, won the praise of customers.

Product Overview:
The extraction tank is filled with solvent, soaked and then heated by jacketed steam. Tank liquid boiling, according to the boiling point of each solvent is different, the beginning, the low-boiling component first boil into a secondary vapor through condensation, cooling to the oil-water separation, can be determined according to the process whether to reflux or discharge. The oil-water separator utilizes the different densities of oil and water to stratify the upper and lower layers, so as to obtain the volatile oil. In addition, due to the heating process, there is a concentration difference between the upper, middle and lower part of the liquid in the main tank, so that the liquid can be recycled from the bottom of the main tank through the filter and the pump back to the upper part of the main tank, realizing dynamic extraction.

This equipment is suitable for pharmaceutical, biological, beverage, food, chemical and other industries, plants, animals, atmospheric pressure, pressurization, decoction, warm immersion, thermal reflux, forced circulation, percolation, aromatic oil extraction and organic solvent recovery and other process operations, especially the use of dynamic extraction or multi-canister countercurrent extraction better, shorter time, high content of the liquid. Equipped with tanks equipped with CIP cleaning automatic rotary spraying ball, temperature gauge, pressure gauge, explosion-proof sight hole lamps, sight glass, quick-open feeding port, etc., to ensure easy operation, in line with GMP standards.

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