High Pressure Extraction as a Green Alternative to the Conventional Sunflower Oil () Production Process - Extraction with Pressurized Ethanol in an Intermittent Process and with Supercritical Fluid.

This research explores green-technology alternatives to extract vegetable oils as alternatives to hexane, a non-renewable solvent, focussing on sunflower oil. It compares pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) with ethanol and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) with CO. Both processes aim to maximize oil yield, tocopherol content (α, β, γ, and δ), fatty acid profile (FA), and triacylglycerol (TAG) composition.