Survey of current solvent extraction equipment

1976 ◽  
Vol 53 (6Part1) ◽  
pp. 286-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. D. Milligan
1984 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Hamerstrand ◽  
R. R. Montgomery

Abstract Conventional oilseed processing technology and equipment were successfully utilized to extract rubber from guayule shrubs that had been pretreated to render the rubber accessible to solvent action. When the chopped and ground shrubs are subjected to sufficient shear to rupture cell walls and form agglomerates of material, they can be handled readily in the essentially unmodified percolation, solvent extraction equipment. Although some of the parameters associated with the solvent system have not, as yet, been optimized, rubber recoveries in excess of 80% were achieved with both freshly harvested “lush” shrubs and shrubs that had been field-dried and stored several weeks before processing.


Author(s):  
Jack Zhang ◽  
Baodong Zhao ◽  
Bryan Schreiner

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