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一. Overview:
Steam distillation
When an essential oil is extracted and produced by steam distillation, plant material
should be placed in a distiller and steam is injected into the plant material.
The hot steam helps to release aromatic molecules from the plant material, because the
steam can force to open the oil gland cells of the essential oil storage in the plant material.
These volatile essential oil molecules are released from the plant material into the steam.
The temperature of the steam needs to be carefully controlled, just enough for the plant
material to release the essential oil. Too hot will ignite the plant material or essential oil.
The steam, which contains the essential oil, passes through a cooling system and
condenses to form a liquid, so that the essential oil and the water are separated from each
other.
The pressure of the steam used is higher than atmospheric pressure, so the boiling
temperature when the steam is produced is above 100 ° C, which promotes the rapid
release of the essential oil from the plant material and prevents the essential oil from
being damaged.
Some essential oils, such as lavender, are sensitive to heat. With this extraction method,
the essential oil is not damaged, and its components, such as linalool, are not broken
down into linalool (alkyl alcohol, linalool) and acetic acid.
二. Device parameters:
After the water-ring vacuum pump is stopped for a long time, the motor blade cove
r must be removed and the blade must be turned several times by hand before it
can be started.
1. It is strictly forbidden to operate the vacuum pump without load. Before starting
the vacuum pump, the vacuum pump inlet valve should be opened (the inlet valve
opening should be moderate to control the inlet flow).
2. The equipment should be inspected for each sealing part in each shift, and the l
eakage should be eliminated in time.
六, cleaning
1, the equipment should be in a clean state before starting, generally online cleanin
g.
Proper pump into some water for boiling for half an hour, and then recycled for hal
f an hour under the condition of equipment operation, and then the sewage is rem
oved, put into the water to wash for the next use.