Essential Oil Distillation

Hari Soesanto
Bogor Agricultural University
Lavender Field
Essential Oil Separator
Steam distillation of lavender. King’s Lynn, Norfolk, UK

1 pint(=0.75 ml) essential oils are obtained from ¼ ton (=225 kg) of
dried lavenders by steam distillation
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Gulsen Rose Oil Factory, Senir Kasabasi, Isparta, Turkey

This is steam distillation system of Gulsen Rose Oil Factory.

Pale yellow portion is rose essential oil obtained by steam distillation.
 Solvent extraction

Loading of an extractor vat - Unloading of an extractor vat after

Cal Pfizer factory - Grasse – 1995 straining the raw material
Cal Pfizer factory - Grasse - 1995
Filtering the concrete Pure essence or absolute -
- Cal Pfizer factory - Cal Pfizer factory - Grasse -
Grasse - 1995 1995
Maceration extraction method
 Enfleurage

http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/physique/docly/divers/parfum/enfleurage.html
http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/physique/docly/divers/parfum/enfleurage.html
Gravure (fin XIXéme). Les châssis préparés sont entassés derrière les ouvrières.
http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/physique/docly/divers/parfum/enfleurage.html
http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/physique/docly/divers/parfum/enfleurage.html
Capturing perfume with headspace -
photo by R. Kaiser
http://www.museesdegrasse.com/MIP/fla_ang/techno_22.shtml