Evaluación económica y experimental: producción de compuestos fenólicos de Mauritia flexuosa L.F. mediante extracción secuencial con solventes supercríticos y convencional

• Autores: Cartagena Gonzales, Zaina Aylin, Arana Copa, Oscar Oswaldo
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
• Repositorio: USIL-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.usil.edu.pe:20.500.14005/13805
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14005/13805
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Industria alimentaria; Tecnología alimentaria; Tecnología química; Procesamiento de alimentos; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.04.01

Mauritia flexuosa L.f. is a palm from the Amazon. Pulp and oil are extracted from its fruits, with a high content of bioactive compounds. This study presents the economic evaluation of two extraction processes: (a) Conventional solvent extraction (CSE) with 80% ethanol for the recovery of phenolic-rich extracts; and (b) Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) followed by CSE to obtain oil and phenolic-rich extracts. The objective of this study was to compare the feasibility of both extraction processes. The economic evaluation and the sensitivity study were evaluated using the SuperPro Designer 9.0® software at an extraction volume of 2000 L. Similar global extraction yields were obtained for both processes; however, 8.4 and 2.4 times more total polyphenol and flavonoid content were extracted, respectively, using SFE+CSE. Cost of manufacturing (COM) was higher in SFE+CSE compared to CSE, USD 193.38/kg and USD 126.47/kg, respectively; however, in the first process, two by-products were obtained. The sensitivity study showed that the cost of the raw material was the factor that had the highest impact on COM in both extraction processes. SFE+CSE was the most economically viable process for obtaining bioactive compounds on an industrial scale from M. flexuosa L.f.