Abstract

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICROWAVE ASSISTED EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES

*Mahesh Kamalja, Pritam Jain, Karishma Patil, Sanjay Surana

ABSTRACT

Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) or simply microwave extraction is a relatively new extraction technique that combines microwave and traditional solvent extraction. Application of microwaves for heating the solvents and plant tissues in extraction process, which increases the kinetic of extraction, is called microwave-assisted extraction. The use of MAE in natural products extraction started in the late 1980, though the technological developments, it has now become one of the popular and cost-effective extraction methods available today, and several advanced MAE instrumentations and methodologies have become available, e.g., pressurized microwave-assisted extraction (PMAE) and solvent-free microwave-assisted extraction (SFMAE). This chapter provides an overview of the MAE and presents a number of specific proto collateral products extraction.

Keywords: Microwave Assisted Extraction, Close/Open MAE System, Development of MAE, Factor Affecting of MAE, Guidelines for MAE.