Abstract
Abstract The extraction of some organic substances from freezed-dried mackerel powder was performed using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC–CO2) at 4.9–24.5 MPa and 313 K in a fixed-bed flow extractor. It was found that the rate of extraction was enhanced by raising the pressure. The overall yield of the SC–CO2 extraction was comparable to that of a hot-hexane-extraction from the same material. The SC–CO2 extraction produced glycerides of pharmacologic significance such as icosapentaenoic acid (IPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) from mackerel. In addition, a kinetic model for extraction with supercritical fluids is described, and is applied to correlate our results obtained in the SC–CO2 extraction of mackerel. This model could express the transport within the solid in the supercritical fluid extraction process.
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