A method for cell disruption and extraction of a plant, includes placing plant material on a porous container, placing the porous container into a reaction device, and producing water ion steam of an atmospheric pressure by a water ion generator. The water ion steam infiltrates the porous container and permeates the plant material. The water ion steam penetrate cells of the plant material and breaks the cell wall of the cells, to cause a cell disruption. The residual water ion steam is drained outward from the exhaust pipe of the box.

The present disclosure relates to a method for extracting caffeic acid and rosmarinic acid from Rosmarinus officinalis L., and more particularly, to a method for extracting caffeic acid and rosmarinic acid from Rosmarinus officinalis L., the method comprising the steps of: (S1) preparing an extraction apparatus including an extractor for passing a solution contained in a main body unit through a filtration membrane to obtain a filtered solution, and dropping the filtered solution to the lower outside through a dropping unit connected to a lower portion of the main body unit, and a receiver located in the lower part of the extractor to collect the filtered solution that is dropped from the dropping unit; (S2) putting dried Rosmarinus officinalis L. into the main body unit, and adding a solvent to the main body unit to immerse the dried Rosmarinus officinalis L. at room temperature; and (S3) dropping a solution in which the dried Rosmarinus officinalis L. has been immersed from the dropping unit to the receiver.

A device for automatic extraction, storage and encapsulation of fatty compounds, the device may include: an extraction unit configured to provide a liquid mixture comprising fatty compounds extracted from biological material and a liquid solvent; an evaporation and reaction unit; a storage unit comprising one or more storage outlet ports; and a controller configured to: control delivery of the liquid mixture from the extraction unit to the evaporation and reaction unit; control evaporation of the solvent from the liquid mixture in the evaporation and reaction unit; control delivery of the liquid mixture from the evaporation and reaction unit to the storage unit; detect safe connection of each of at least one of one or more capsules to one of the one or more storage outlet ports of the storage unit; and control filling of at least one of the one or more connected capsules with the liquid mixture.

A recirculating high pressure lipid extractor includes a kettle with a sealed interior configured for pressurizing and heating a fluid mixture. A flow funnel is positioned in a lower portion. A removable material basket is positioned on top of the flow funnel in an upper section. The removable material basket is configured to hold a material inside the removable material basket. A drain and inlet port is at a bottom of the kettle in communication with the sealed interior of the kettle. A recirculation port is approximate a top of the kettle in communication with the sealed interior of the kettle. Wherein, when the fluid mixture is inserted into the kettle, the recirculating high pressure lipid extractor is configured to pressurize and heat the fluid mixture and recirculate the pressurized and heated fluid mixture from the recirculation port into the drain and inlet port.

A process for the extraction of oleoresins from vegetable material by solvent comprising the following successive steps:

a solvent washing step of vegetable material in maceration means controlled in temperature and/or pressure for a time varying between 10 and 60 minutes, with a proportion between the mass of vegetable material to be treated and the volume of solvent between 1:5 kg/l 1:10 kg/l; the temperature is controlled by means of a cryogenic fluid and is between −60 ° C. and −100 ° C., thus obtaining a mixture containing a solid fraction, and a liquid fraction in which the oleoresins dissolved in the solvent are included;

a pressing step of the mixture in order to separate the solid fraction of vegetable material from the liquid fraction of solvent containing the oleoresins;

a step of filtration of the liquid fraction of the mixture;

a step of separation of the solvent from the liquid fraction of the mixture in an evaporator, controlled under pressure and temperature, in which the pressure is between 10 mbar and 50 mbar and the temperature is between 10° C. and 40° C., thus obtaining so the active principles and/or the oleoresins.

Extraction devices and related methods are disclosed. Extraction devices disclosed may include a hopper, a piston, and an evaporation chamber. The hopper may be filled with a plant material and a solvent. The piston may be removably housed within the hopper so as to form a hermetic seal with the hopper. Once a solvent and extract mixture is formed within the hopper, a valve in the bottom of the hopper may be opened to allow the solvent and extract mixture to flow into the evaporation chamber via gravity. The remaining plant material may be compressed by the piston to remove any remaining solvent and extract mixture. The solvent may be evaporated in the evaporation chamber leaving a purified plant extract. Various types of plant materials may be used within the hopper. Various types of solvents may be used as well, including heptane and hexane.

The present invention discloses an apparatus for effective and efficient extraction of resin from plant materials. The apparatus includes at least an agitator and a tank. The tank is a square tank and is made of one piece of plastic that is sloped and folded (V-shaped) at the bottom. The agitator includes a single impellor or pulsator having two sides. The pulsator creates fluid currents in an upwards and downwards direction. Top portion pushes fluid up and bottom portion pushes fluid down. As a result of agitation, trichomes get separated and pass-through openings of the false bottom surface and are collected on the V-shaped bottom surface. This collection of the trichomes on the V-shaped bottom surface ensures that the trichomes do not move or go upward. The false bottom surface ensures that the trichomes are not getting hit by the agitator again post their collection on the V-shaped bottom surface.

A system and method for extracting essential oils from organic material is provided. One embodiment places organic material into an extraction chamber that is a cylindrical wall of rigid material, wherein a diameter and a height of the extraction chamber is sized to define an interior that accommodates a desired amount of an organic material having essential oils; fills the extraction chamber with a solvent after the organic matter has been placed into the extraction chamber; and moves a vortex plunger disposed over the surface of the organic material in a repeated upward and downward motion during an agitation process so that the vortex vanes generate a fluid vortex in the solvent, wherein the fluid vortex causes the solvent to be drawn upward into the organic material and then to be pushed downward through the organic material so that the solvent extracts essential oils from the organic material.

The invention extends the utility of apparatus used to extract medicinal cannabis compounds into an eluate by separating a portion of medicinal cannabis compounds contained within a portion of eluate at a first extraction target level providing enough clean solvent to continue extraction operations. A high efficiency concentrator such as a rotary evaporator or a wiped film evaporator processes eluate from one or more tanks or extraction vessels creating clean solvent when extraction targets are met or when clean solvent is exhausted. This manages eluate concentration levels and limits the quantity of concentrated medicinal cannabis compounds on site at any moment in time. The invention enables a business model for keeping medicinal cannabis compounds within a legal system, and reduces pollution because law enforcement would no longer have to burn large quantities of cannabis plant matter.

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices for phytochemical extraction. One example extraction system includes two solvent columns, a material column, and a dewaxing column. The solvent columns store and provide solvent for stripping target chemicals from plant material in the material column. The solvent mixed with target chemicals passes into the dewaxing column, where the target chemicals are separated from waxes and lipids. Cooling is applied to elements of the system by way of an open-loop CO2 refrigeration method. Solvent is moved from the solvent columns to the material column by creating a pressure differential between the two solvent columns.