This book provides insights into essential oil extraction research with a special interest in the scalability concerns of each extraction method and their techno-economic concerns. It includes advancements and prognosis for the optimal extraction of essentials oil from laboratory to pilot, then to industrial scale. It overviews techno-economic feasibility and life cycle assessment to identify sustainable options and propose improvements to the currently available technologies in essential oil extraction.

Features:

• Focusses on extraction technology of essential oils and scalability concern of essential oil extraction
• Presents robust elucidation on essential oil production, current market value, and demand
• Reviews feasibility studies and techno economic consideration of essential oil production processes
• Updates on oil extraction technologies and process intensification emerging technologies in harnessing the nutraceuticals benefit
• Emphasizes simulation, optimization, and lifecycle assessment for environmental sustainability

This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in separation and purification processes, process intensification, and agricultural feedstocks.