Fractionation of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) by-products extracts by reducing pressure using supercritical CO2

• Grant number: 17/11245-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2018
• End date: January 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Food Science and Technology - Food Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Julian Martínez
• Grantee: Luana Cristina dos Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos (FEA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/10655-0 - Bioactivity of extracts from passion fruit by-products and their efficiency in preventing neurodegenerative diseases, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Despite its proved health benefits, phytochemical compounds as tocols, polyunsaturated fatty acids, phytosterols and then some, are still not very much explored through safety extraction methods for further application in food, cosmetics or pharmaceutical industry. Fractionation and extraction process that uses supercritical CO2 (SC-CO2) has great potential to replace common processes because of the use of a safety and easily removed the solvent. SC-CO2 uses to obtain bioactive compounds from fruit waste are still less investigated in the literature compared to plant extracts. The fractionation of compounds using supercritical technology and decreasing the pressure has the advantage of online separation with no need to use co-solvents once that technology modifies thermodynamic properties of the solvent by simple variations in temperature and pressure, allowing, for instance, the separation of compounds with unlike molecular mass and polarity. The aim of this work is to explore different separation process conditions to purify bioactive compounds from passion fruit by-product in order to turn a waste from food industry into a valuable product. A separation unit will be built with two separators inline that will operate together with an already existent extraction unit located in the Laboratory of High Pressure in Food Engineering (LAPEA) at University of Campinas - UNICAMP. The analysis will be performed to characterize minor compounds of interest that are present in the by-products (tocols, phytosterols and unsaturated fatty acids) and products concentrated in these compounds should be obtained. An economic evaluation of the process will be made by means of an estimative of manufacture costs of the fractions. (AU)

Scientific publications

(8)

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; ALVAREZ-RIVERA, GERARDO; DAVID SANCHEZ-MARTINEZ, JOSE; FLORES JOHNER, JULIO CESAR; BARRALES, FRANCISCO MANUEL; DE OLIVEIRA, ALESSANDRA LOPES; CIFUENTES, ALEJANDRO; IBANEZ, ELENA; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Comparison of different extraction methods of Brazilian ``pacova{''} (Renealmia petasites Gagnep.) oilseeds for the determination of lipid and terpene composition, antioxidant capacity, and inhibitory effect on neurodegenerative enzymes. FOOD CHEMISTRY-X, v. 12, DEC 30 2021. (17/23670-2, 17/11245-5, 19/10655-0)

DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; MENDIOLA, JOSE ANTONIO; SANCHEZ-CAMARGO, ANDREA DEL PILAR; ALVAREZ-RIVERA, GERARDO; VIGANO, JULIANE; CIFUENTES, ALEJANDRO; IBANEZ, ELENA; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Selective Extraction of Piceatannol from Passiflora edulis by-Products: Application of HSPs Strategy and Inhibition of Neurodegenerative Enzymes. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, v. 22, n. 12, JUN 2021. (17/23670-2, 17/11245-5, 19/10655-0)

DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; BITENCOURT, RAPHAELA GABRI; DOS SANTOS, PHILIPE; VIEIRA E ROSA, PAULO DE TARSO; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Solubility of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) seed oil in supercritical CO2. Fluid Phase Equilibria, v. 493, p. 174-180, AUG 1 2019. (17/11245-5, 16/15023-4, 17/23670-2)

SCOPEL, EUPIDIO; DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; BOFINGER, MATHEUS RODRIGUES; MARTINEZ, JULIAN; REZENDE, CAMILA ALVES. Green extractions to obtain value-added elephant grass co-products in an ethanol biorefinery. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, v. 274, NOV 20 2020. (16/13602-7, 17/23670-2, 17/11245-5, 18/23769-1)

DOS SANTOS, LUANA C.; JOHNER, JULIO C. F.; SCOPEL, EUPIDIO; PONTES, PAULA V. A.; RIBEIRO, ANA P. B.; ZABOT, GIOVANI L.; BATISTA, EDUARDO A. C.; MEIRELES, M. ANGELA A.; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Integrated supercritical CO2 extraction and fractionation of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) by-products. JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, v. 168, FEB 1 2021. (17/23670-2, 17/11245-5, 14/21252-0)

LUIS PASQUEL-REATEGUI, JOSE; DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; BARRALES, FRANCISCO MANUEL; GROBER, VANESSA LAIS; SOARES FORTE, MARCUS BRUNO; SARTORATTO, ADILSON; QUEIROGA, CARMEN LUCIA; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Fractionation of sesquiterpenes and diterpenic acids from copaiba (Copaifera officinalis) oleoresin using supercritical adsorption. JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, v. 184, p. 10-pg., 2022-05-01. (17/23670-2, 15/11932-7, 16/13602-7, 17/11245-5)

HATAMI, TAHMASB; DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; ZABOT, GIOVANI LEONE; DE ALMEIDA PONTES, PAULA VIRGINIA; CALDAS BATISTA, EDUARDO AUGUSTO; INNOCENTINI MEI, LUCIA HELENA; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Integrated supercritical extraction and supercritical adsorption processes from passion fruit by-product: experimental and economic analyses. JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, v. 162, AUG 1 2020. (17/11245-5, 18/18722-6)

MOREIRA, RAFAEL CHELALA; DE MELO, RAYANNE PRISCILLA FRANCA; MARTINEZ, JULIAN; MAROSTICA JUNIOR, MARIO ROBERTO; PASTORE, GLAUCIA MARIA; ZORN, HOLGER; BICAS, JULIANO LEMOS. Supercritical CO2 as a Valuable Tool for Aroma Technology. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, v. 71, n. 24, p. 12-pg., 2023-06-08. (21/01008-1, 15/13320-9, 20/06814-3, 17/11245-5, 15/50333-1, 19/13465-8, 18/11069-5)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SANTOS, Luana Cristina dos. Fractionation of extracts from industrial yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims.) by-products using supercritical CO2 and pressurized fluids. 2022. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos Campinas, SP.