Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 4:45 PM
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Supercritical CO2 Extraction Lipids And Phospholipids From Sewage Sludge

Kaiwen Liang, Hossein Toghiani, and Rafael Hernandez. Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 330 Swalm Circle President Dr., Mississippi State University, MS 39762

Supercritical CO2 extraction was used to fractionate and enrich high value phospholipids from sewage sludge. Lecithin was selected as a model to evaluate supercritical CO2 extraction lipids and phospholipids from swage sludge. Neat supercritical CO2 was used to extract oil from soybean lecithin and then supercritical CO2 with 5 – 15 wt% methanol as a co-solvent was used to extract phospholipids from de-oil soybean lecithin were performed. Gas chromatography (GC) fitted with a flame ionization detector (FID) was used to quantitatively analysis the fatty acid composition of extract. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)-attenuated total reflectance (ATR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to qualitatively and semi-quantitatively analysis lipids and phospholipids in the extract. Neat CO2 was used to extract the oil from sewage sludge. The sludge was then extracted with supercritical CO2 over a range of temperatures, with 5 – 15 wt% methanol as a cosolvent. Phosphorus analysis was also performed to quantitatively analysis phosphorus content in the sample and extracts. The effect of extraction temperature, level of co-solvent employed and extraction pressure were examined.