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When parts of plants containing essential oils are boiled, the essential oil is also distilled along with water vapor, despite the fact that the boiling point of essential oils is higher than the boiling point of water. The most way distillation can be carried out by simple boiling with water, bubbling with steam, or distillation at low temperatures under reduced pressure.

Of all these methods, the most perfect is steam distillation, the simplest is boiling with water.

For distillation by boiling, a cube filled with water, parts of plants containing essential oils is loaded, and in the cube itself, at some distance from the bottom, a second false slatted bottom is installed in order to protect the plants loaded into the cube from burning that occurs in direct contact with the bottom of the cube . The cube is heated with a firebox.

When the water boils, the essential oil enters the refrigerator along with the water vapor. Condensed water and essential oil are collected in a receiver.

When distilling essential oils with steam, there is absolutely no need for special heating of the cube, since the steam is directly passed into the cube. Further work is carried out in the same way. The oil distilled along with water or free of charge is collected in bottles, settled and separated from the water.

These methods of extracting the oil are not applicable when the parts of the plant contain little oil, or if the essential oils change their qualities during distillation and do not give the proper aroma.

Author: Korolev V.A.

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