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2 ROLE OF PROCESS SIMULATION IN EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS
petrochemical and fi ne chemical industries, and is particularly interesting
for biotechnological and phytochemical processes.
In summary, process simulation may play an important role in
the optimization of phytochemical processes and, therefore, application of
process simulation can assist in the development of advanced processes.
This paper showed that it is possible to achieve energy reduction and maximization
of product yield.
Process simulation perhaps is not a good tool for countries
that are using primitive techniques, since they should aim at reaching a
stable quality of the product rather than an optimization of energy consumption
and environmental issues. Moreover, they should focus on practical
problems such as the quality of the materials and the water to be used for
extraction.
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