New Advances in Green Extraction Technology for Natural Products
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Separation Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 374
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Interests: plant secondary metabolites; bioactive compounds; medicinal and aromatic plants; essential oils; green extraction; chromatography; mass spectrometry; biological activities
Interests: bioactive compounds; plant metabolites; extraction optimization; phenolics; antioxidation; chromatography; mass spectrometry
Interests: food chemistry; herbs; natural extracts; antioxidants; antimicrobials; phytochemicals; phenolic compounds
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Interests: food microbiology; green extraction technologies; chemical characterisation; in vitro antioxidant; antimicrobial activity; application of bioactive compunds in foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green and sustainable extraction techniques are being intensively developed nowadays to replace or reduce the conventional, environmentally unfriendly, solvent-based techniques. The development of these novel techniques, such as microwave-assisted extraction, ultrasound-assisted extraction, pressure-assisted liquid extraction, supercritical CO2 extraction, pulsed electric field assisted extraction, and enzyme-assisted extraction, etc., helps to minimise the negative impact on the environment and human health by reducing or eliminating the use of extraction solvent, as well as by reducing extraction time and energy consumption. Some of the major industries, such as the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and agricultural industries, are increasingly using extracts from natural products and/or their specific metabolites. At least 50% of the energy consumption in industrial processes is related to the extraction cycle, meaning that the implementation of new and optimization of existing extraction methods are important economic and environmental factors.
In most cases, the application of green extraction techniques leads to an increase in the extraction yield of the target metabolites, as well as differences in the chemical composition of the isolated natural products.
This Special Issue on “New Advances in Green Extraction Technology of Natural Products” will present new research advances in green extraction technologies that lead to improved extraction reproducibility, higher extraction yields, reduced energy, and solvent consumption.
We hope you will consider participating in this Special Issue.
Sincerely,
Dr. Marijana Popović
Dr. Maja Veršić Bratinčević
Prof. Dr. Ivana Generalić Mekinić
Dr. Danijela Skroza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- secondary metabolites
- phytochemicals
- isolation
- green extraction
- ultrasound-assisted extraction
- microwave-assisted extraction
- supercritical fluid extraction
- identification and quantification of secondary metabolites
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