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Steam distillation

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Hydrodistillation using the Steam distillation apparatus, Clevenger-type apparatus. (A) Power regulator; (B) Heating mantle with round bottom flask containing water and aromatic leaves; (C) Clevenger-type apparatus that returns the hydrosol to the still and maintains the essential oil phase, but only
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even below its boiling point, so in theory it could be distilled at any temperature by collecting and condensing its vapors. However, ordinary distillation below the boiling point is not practical because a layer of vapor-rich air would form over the liquid, and evaporation would stop as soon as the
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Simple distillation is generally done by boiling the starting material, because, once its vapor pressure exceeds atmospheric pressure, that still vapor-rich layer of air will be disrupted, and there will be a significant and steady flow of vapor from the boiling flask to the condenser.
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On a lab scale, steam distillations are carried out using steam generated outside the system and piped through the mixture to be purified. Steam can also be generated in-situ using a Clevenger-type apparatus.
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In steam distillation, that positive flow is provided by steam from boiling water, rather than by the boiling of the substances of interest. The steam carries with it the vapors of the latter.
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or other unwanted reactions. It may also be useful when the amount of the desired substance is small compared to that of the non-volatile residues. It is often used to separate volatile
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is forced to flow through the starting material in a separate container. The latter variant allows the steam to be heated above the boiling point of water (thus becoming
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Sadgrove & Jones, A contemporary introduction to essential oils: Chemistry, bioactivity and prospects for Australian agriculture, Agriculture 5(1), 2015,
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The substance of interest does not need to be miscible water or soluble in it. It suffices that it has significant vapor pressure at the steam's temperature.
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of the vapor in that layer reached the vapor pressure. The vapor would then flow to the condenser only by diffusion, which is an extremely slow process.
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and subsequently to hydrolyze the intermediate benzophenone dichloride into benzophenone, which is in fact not steam distilled. It one preparation of a
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Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook. English Translation, with an Introduction and Glossary
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where steam distillation is used to first remove the excess benzene and subsequently to purifiy the brominated product. In one preparation of
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Steam distillation once was a popular laboratory method for purification of organic compounds, but it has been replaced in many such uses by
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of the substance to be extracted is higher than that of water, and the starting material cannot be heated to that temperature because of
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with the substances of interest, the boiling point of the mixture may be lower than the boiling point of water. For example,
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are obtained by this method on an industrial scale. Steam distillation is a means of purifying fatty acids, e.g. from
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If, as is usually the case, the volatiles are not miscible with water, they will spontaneously form a distinct
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for essential oils that are less dense than water and therefore float; (D) The condenser.
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by adding water to rose petals and distilling the mixture. The process was also used by
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A boiling water distiller. Boiling tank on top and holding tank on the bottom.
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Translation of some of the recipes as quoted in the 14th-century cookbook
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Extracting Bioactive Compounds for Food Products: Theory and Applications
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p. 128, note h (cf. the reservations on the authenticity of the work in
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Steam distillation is used in many of the recipes given in the
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from the boiling water carries the vapor of the volatiles to a
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Steam distillation is often employed in the isolation of
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after condensation, allowing them to be separated by
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Index


aniline
separation process
distilling
volatile
steam
condenser
phase
decantation
separatory funnel
boiling point
decomposition
essential oils
limonene
orange peels
vacuum distillation
supercritical fluid extraction
mesh
boiler
superheated steam

al-Kindi
Avicenna
essential oils
al-Dimashqi
rose water
vapor pressure
partial pressure
azeotrope
bromobenzene

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