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Essential Oils: From Conventional to Green Extraction

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Essential Oils as Reagents in Green Chemistry

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This chapter reviews the development of extraction techniques for essential oils (EOs). The conventional extraction techniques and their intensifications are summarized in terms of their principles, benefits and disadvantages. The green extractions with innovative techniques are also elaborated for future optimization and improvement of traditional EOs’ productions.

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  1. Universite d’Avignon et des Pays du Vaucluse, INRA-SQPOV, UMR408, GREEN Extraction Team, Avignon, France

    Ying Li, Anne-Sylvie Fabiano-Tixier & Farid Chemat

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Li, Y., Fabiano-Tixier, AS., Chemat, F. (2014). Essential Oils: From Conventional to Green Extraction. In: Essential Oils as Reagents in Green Chemistry. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08449-7_2

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