Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6671051 The Journal of Supercritical Fluids 2016 30 Pages PDF
Abstract

- Moringa oleifera seeds contain up to 40% of edible oil with significant abundance of sterols.
- Analysis of the SFE of moringa seed oil and subsequent purification of its sterols fraction.
- Techno-economic study of the coproduction of oil and sterols using RSM-COM approach.
- The best costs of manufacturing of moringa seed oil and sterols are 2.76€kgoil−1 and 5.60€kgsterols−1.
- For a SFE unit with two extractors of 1 m3, the best net income is 15.87 M € year−1.
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