Aromatic Plants from “Plateau des Cataractes”: Kinetic modeling of the extraction of leaf essential oils from Curcuma mangga (Valeton and Zijp) acclimatized in Congo-Brazzaville
Thomas Silou1,2*, Ernest Bitemou1, Kevin Bikindou3, Aubin Nestor Loumouamoua3, Pierre Chalard4
1Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (UMNG) BP: 69 Brazzaville, Congo.
2Ecole Supérieure de technologie de Cataractes (EPrES) BP: 389 Brazzaville, Congo.
3 Ecole Normale Supérieure (UMNG) BP: 69 Brazzaville, Congo.
4Université Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand, France.
*Corresponding Author E-mail: thsilou@yahoo.fr
ABSTRACT:
Curcuma mangga Val. and Zijp is one of the many underutilized species of the genus Curcuma despite their proven interest as spice to color and enhance the taste of food, on the one hand, and as medicinal plants through essential oils extracted from different parts of the plant, on the other hand. Modeling the extraction in order to optimize the yield of essential oil is a pre requisite for the development of this species used as a spice in Congo-Brazzaville. The experimental results of the extraction of essential oil from the leaves analyzed, according to the phenomenological approach, validate both the kinetic model of the pseudo first order, when the washing step is neglected compared to the diffusion step and that of Peleg corresponding to a desorption in two steps (washing/diffusion). The main constituents of the oil adopt different desorption routes depending on their nature and their quantitative importance in the oil. Simple kinetics have been observed for sesquiterpenes present in relatively large amounts and complex for the monoterpenes in much smaller quantities.
KEYWORDS: C. mangga. Essential oil. Constituents. Modeling kinetics. Congo-Brazzaville.
INTRODUCTION:
The genus Curcuma, which belongs to the zingiberaceae family, is one of the most abundant in the world, with over 100 species; it is very well known in Asia and Africa for the coloring agents it provides in the culinary arts1. Essential oils extracted from Curcuma species have been extensively studied and in a recent review Dosoky and Setzer2 identified over 170 works relating to the composition and properties of their essential oils, with Curcuma longa topping the list with 34 % citations, followed by C. zedoaria (12 %), C. aromatica (12 %), C. aeruginosa (6 %), C. angustifolia (3 %) and the last third of citations remaining concerns 25 species. Rhizomes have been studied much more than leaves and in C. longa, for example, 70 % of studies relating to rhizomes, 28 % to leaves and 3 % to flowers were identified. These studies have demonstrated a very wide variety of chemical profiles, leading to extremely varied pharmacological properties: anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, antiproliferative, hypocholesterolemic, anti-diabetic, antihepatotoxic, anti-diarrheal, diuretic, anti-rheumatic, hypotensive properties, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiviral, insecticidal, larvicidal, antivenom, antithrombotic, antityrosinase properties1,2. Chemical composition and biological properties studies were available in the literature3 and four at least concern C. mangga rhizomes4-7. The kinetic modeling of oil extraction, which has been very less studied for the zingiberaceae, almost exclusively concerns Zingiber Cassumunar8.
In Congo-Brazzaville the Curcuma mangga is used as a food plant to flavor and enhance the taste of stewed fish with its spicy ginger flavor. It could be valued as a medicinal plant as in other parts of the world, although it receives much less attention than C. longa, C. zedoaria and C. aromatica. We have previously evaluated the variability of the chemical composition of the essential oils of the leaves and rhizomes of Curcuma mangga from the “plateau des Cataractes” over three years9 and their antioxidant properties10. The present work, on the kinetic modeling of the extraction by hydrodistillation of essential oils from the leaves aims at understanding the intimate mechanisms involved during this extraction, which is the basis of any work to scale-up any process. MATERIAL AND METHOD:
Extraction of essential oil:The leaves were dried in the shade for 7 days. Plant material (300 g of leaves (m1, dried matter-dm-)) placed in the 1 L flask with 500 mL of water were distillated for 6 hours. The essential oil were extracted with diethyl ether, and dried with the anhydrous sodium sulfate (m2). The yield Y (%) of essential oil extraction is given by:Y (%) = 100 (m2/m1) dm
Determination of physico-chemical characteristics:
The acid value (AV), the ester value (EV) the refractive index (n), the relative density d20 and the rotary power were determined according to AFNOR standards11.
Gas chromatography (GC-FID):
The quantitative analysis of essential oils was carried out by an Agilent model 6890 chromatograph equipped with a DB5 column (20 m × 0.18 mm × 0.18 μm). The oven temperature was programmed at 50°C for 3.2 min, then heated to 300°C at a speed of 10°C/min. The temperature of the injector and the flame ionization detector (FID) were maintained at 280°C. The essential oils were diluted in acetone at 3.5% (v/v) and injected in mode fractionated (1/60), helium was used as carrier gas (1 ml/min), the injection volume was 1 μl. At the same time, a solution of n -alkanes (C8-C30) was analyzed under the same conditions to calculate the retention indices (RI) with the equation of Van den Dool and Kratz12. The relative concentrations of the compounds were calculated from the area of the peak obtained by gas chromatography without using correction factors.
Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS) tandem:
The qualitative analysis was carried out using a gas chromatograph model Agilent 7890 coupled to a mass spectrometer model Agilent 5975, equipped with a DB5 column (20 m × 0.18 mm × 0.18 μm). The oven temperature was set up at 50°C and remains constant for 3.2 min, then raised to 300°C at a speed of 8°C per minute, the temperature of the injector was 280°C. The ionization was obtained by electronic impact at 70 eV and the electron multiplier was at 2200 eV. The temperature of the ion source was 230°C. Mass spectral data was acquired in scanning mode in the range m/z 33-450. The carrier gas flow rate (helium) was fixed at 0.9 milliliter per minute, the identification of the compounds was made by comparison of their spectra and their retention indices (RI) with those of libraries such as Adams13and NIST14, and that made in our laboratory.
Kinetics of extraction:Phenomenological approach:Naturally, essential oils are present in very low content in the plant. Their production in profitable conditions over the time (sustainable production) requires basic good knowledge of the extraction mechanisms. During the extraction, the elementary mechanisms take place at molecular level, lower than the size of the particle obtained by grinding the plant matrix which is the macroscopic level of study. The phenomenological approach consists of a series of simplifying hypotheses, to be verified a posteriori, in order to relate the macroscopic manifestations to the phenomena taking place at the molecular level. It is based on Patricelli et al. works15 formalized by So and Macdonald16 and widely validated by Milojevic et al..17, Meziane et al.18 on a very large experimental data of essential oils.
These hypotheses can be summarized up in seven points: (i) Plant particles are considered to have properties such as shape, size and contain the initial essential oil (Milojevic et al17; (ii) The concentration gradients in the fluid phase develop at scales greater than the size of the particles; (iii) The solvent flow rate is uniformly distributed in each section of the extractor; (iv) Part of the essential oil is located on the outer surfaces of the plant particles, f, and the rest is evenly distributed inside the plant particles (1-f); (v) The essential oil is considered to be a single component; (vi) The effective diffusion coefficient through plant particles is constant, and (vii) There is no resistance to essential oil mass transfer from the outer surfaces of plant particles17.
Tableau 1: Formal kinetic data22
|
|
Zero order (n=0) |
First order (n=1) |
Second order (n=2) |
|
Rate expression |
Rate = k [A]0 |
Rate = k [A]1 |
Rate = k [A]2 |
|
Integrated rate equation |
[A]= -k t + [A]0 |
ln[A] = - kt + ln[A]0 |
1/[A] = kt + 1/[A]0 |
|
Half-life expression |
t1/2 = [A]0/2k |
t1/2 =0.693/k |
t1/2 = 1/k[A]0 |
|
Units for k (M1-n t-1) |
M1 t-1 |
M0 t-1 |
M-1 t-1 |
Milojevic model:
These hypotheses lead to the general mathematical expression which describes a simultaneous two-step extraction (washing and diffusion) proposed by Sovova et al19 which is a sum-expression of two exponential variations of these two steps:
qt/q∞ = Mt/M∞ = 1 – f. exp(-k1t) - (1-f) exp(-k2t) Eq1
If one considers an instantaneous washing followed by slower diffusion when k1 tends to infinity:
qt/q∞=1- (1-f) exp (-k2t) Eq2
In the absence of any washing (f = 0) we obtain a pseudo first order model20:
qt/q∞ = 1- exp (-k2t) Eq3
(q∞ – qt)/q∞ = exp(-k2t)
Eq4
ln[((q∞ – qt)/q∞] =
k2t Eq5
if qt/q∞ = y
ln[1/1-y] = k2t Eq6
This first-order kinetic mechanism, known as a washing free mechanism, has, for example, been valitaded by Hervas et al.21. Much, more recently, Meziane et al.18 have just established that 80 % of the results from the literature validate the pseudo first order kinetics independently of the assumptions made on the models. When the extraction follows these kinetics, its representative curve is a straight line passing through the origin, with slope k, the kinetic constant. This allows rapid graphic validation of the models considered. The ordinate at time origin different to 0, indicates a very fast washing step, this ordinate value is related to washing step.
Table
1 summarizes the formal kinetic data with simple kinetic orders: 0, 1 and
2.
Peleg model:
Moreover, and starting from the similarity of the moisture desorption curves by flour 23 and metabolite desorption (extraction) from solid plant matrices, Bucic-Kojic et al. 24 applied Peleg's model to the polyphenol extraction from grape seeds. It is a non-exponential empirical model (Eq5), characterized by two parameters K1 and K2:
C(t) = C0 ± t/(K1 + K2t) Eq6
which leads to the following linear form:
t/Ct = K1 + K2t Eq7
Adaptated to essential oil extraction, C(t) means the essential oil (EO) mass extracted (or extract concentration) at time t; C0 = 0 : the EO mass extracted at t = 0; C∞ = EO mass extracted at t∞; K1 and K2 constants obtained (i) by the method of minimization of RMSE in numerical computation or (ii) graphically by the equation Eq 7. According Jovic et al.25 and Bucic-Kojic et al.24, K1 and K2 mean respectively Peleg kinetic constant in (t. C-1) unit and Peleg extraction capacity constant in (C) unit. K1 is related to B0, kinetic constant at initial times (t = t0) by: B0 = 1/K1 (C. t-1 units) and K2 to Ce, concentration of the metabolite extracted at the end of extraction equilibrium (t∞) by: Ce = 1/K2 (C units). This model was adapted to essential oils by Farhana et al.26 with the same meaning for the constants K1 (Peleg kinetic constant) and K2 (Peleg extraction capacity constant). Starting from the equation Eq7, we graphically determined K2, the slope of the straight line, and K1 ordinate at the origin of the line t/Ct = f(t). In the two-step phenomenological approach, K1 characterizes the rapid washing from destroyed cells and K2, the balance of essential oil at the solid/liquid interface governed by the diffusion of the essential oil inner the plant material. The hydrodistillation kinetic constant was given by k = K2/K1 (t-1). The phenomenological approach using the formalism of formal kinetics makes it possible to achieve the macroscopic kinetic and thermodynamic quantities necessary for the scaling up of extraction processes27.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:
There was no information on Curcuma mangga Val. and Zijp from Africa before the present study, which was carried out for 3 years on the “plateau des Cataractes” in Congo-Brazzaville and in four localities: Loukoko, Mindouli, Loulombo and Brazzaville. The results relating to the chemical variability of essential oils and the biological properties have just been published9-10. The physicochemical characteristics and chemical compositions of the essential oils of the leaves are given here for illustration and serve to support the kinetic modeling of the extraction.
Characterization of essential oils:
The physicochemical characteristics of the essential oils of the leaves of Curcuma mangga from Loukoko and Mindouli studied are reported in Table 2. These are pale yellow oils extracted respectively with a yield of 0.56 and 0.65 %, relative densities d20 : 0.88 and 0.91, refractive indices n : 1.47and 1.48, rotary power : - 0.04 and -0.05; acid values AV: 0.53 and 0.59 and ester values EV : 16.25 and 16.29.
Table 3 gives the chemical composition of the leaf essential oils of Curcuma mangga from the “plateau des Cataractes” in Congo-Brazzaville. Extraction leads an essential oil consisting mainly of two sesquiterpene hydrocarbons: ar-curcumene (21.00-26.78 %), ᾳ-zingiberene (5.49-9.90 %), one monoterpene hydrocarbon in the two isomeric forms: α and β pinenes (0.25 -7.76 %), monoterpenes oxygenated : 1,8cineole (2.17-16.86 %) and monoterpene hydrocarbons, with lesser content: β- bisabolene (4.40-6.06 %), Camphor (5.86-6.61 %)9.
Kinetic modeling of the extraction of leaf essential oil of Curcuma mangga Val. and Zijp
Essential oil extraction:
Table 4 gives the variation in the extraction yield of leaf essential oil of Curcuma mangga as a function of the extraction time t. The low value of standard deviation suggests a similarity of the extraction mechanism over the 3 years of the study.
Table 2: Oil content and physico-chemical characteristics (Mean±Standard Deviation) of the leaf essential oils of Curcuma mangga from “Plateau des Cataractes” (Congo-Brazzaville)
|
Sites |
Yeild (%) |
AV |
n |
EV |
|
|
|
Loukoko |
0.65±0.09 |
0.51±0.08 |
1.47±0.01 |
16.32±0.08 |
-0.02±0.02 |
0.91±0.02 |
|
Mindouli |
0.56±0.69 |
0.58±0.04 |
1.48±0.04 |
16.25±0.04 |
0.07±0.02 |
0.88±0.00 |
Table 3: Chemical Composition of leaf essential oils (%) of Curcuma mangga from Loukoko (LKK1) and Mindouli (MID1) «Plateau des Cataractes»
|
Constituents |
RIlitt |
RIexp |
LKK1 |
MID1 |
|
ᾳ-pinene |
939 |
931 |
4.18 |
0.09 |
|
Camphene |
946 |
947 |
1.98 |
0.05 |
|
Sabinene |
975 |
970 |
0.28 |
- |
|
β-pinene |
979 |
975 |
3.58 |
0.16 |
|
Limonene |
1029 |
1027 |
1.38 |
0.13 |
|
1,8-cineole |
1031 |
1031 |
16.85 |
2.17 |
|
Cis-hydrate sabinene |
1070 |
1069 |
0.68 |
- |
|
Linalool |
1099 |
1097 |
1.18 |
1.51 |
|
Camphor |
1146 |
1148 |
6.61 |
5.86 |
|
Isoborneol |
1160 |
1165 |
1.49 |
1.46 |
|
Borneol |
1169 |
1174 |
0.49 |
1.41 |
|
α-terpineol |
1188 |
1196 |
0.78 |
1.25 |
|
β-elemene |
1390 |
1389 |
0.27 |
0.41 |
|
Sesquithujene |
1405 |
1402 |
0.16 |
0.60 |
|
β-caryophyllene |
1419 |
1421 |
0.36 |
0.74 |
|
γ-elemene |
1431 |
1428 |
- |
0.09 |
|
Trans-β Bergamotene |
1434 |
1432 |
0.11 |
0.18 |
|
€-β farnesene |
1454 |
1450 |
0.32 |
0.25 |
|
ar-curcumene |
1480 |
1482 |
21.00 |
26.78 |
|
ᾳ-zingiberene |
1493 |
1493 |
3.55 |
10.35 |
|
β-bisabolene |
1505 |
1507 |
4.40 |
6.06 |
|
β-sesquiphellandrene |
1522 |
1518 |
5.49 |
9.90 |
|
Cis-hydrate sesquisabinene |
1544 |
1554 |
0.68 |
0.96 |
|
Germacrene-B |
1561 |
1561 |
- |
0.65 |
|
ar-turmerol |
1583 |
1578 |
- |
1.28 |
|
Caryophyllene oxide |
1583 |
1585 |
1.66 |
2.16 |
|
Trans-hydrate sesquisabinene |
1579 |
1590 |
1.53 |
1.53 |
|
Trans-β elemenone |
1602 |
1601 |
1.98 |
1.98 |
|
Curzerenone |
1606 |
1604 |
0.67 |
4.42 |
|
Germacrone |
1696 |
1696 |
1.84 |
2.97 |
|
ar-curcumen-15-al |
1713 |
1713 |
1.85 |
1.55 |
|
Total |
|
|
85,35 |
86,95 |
|
Monoterpene hydrocarbons |
18.01 |
6.29 |
||
|
Monoterpene oxygenated |
21.47 |
7.80 |
||
|
Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons |
35.66 |
56.01 |
||
|
Sequiterpene oxygenated |
10.03 |
19.85 |
||
RIlitt: Retention Index (literature); RIexp : Retention Index (experimental)
Table 4: Extraction yield of leaf essential oil of Curcuma mangga from plateau des Cataractes (Congo-Brazzaville)
|
Time (h)Year |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
1 |
0.00 |
0.77 |
1.25 |
1.25 |
1.20 |
1.38 |
1.50 |
|
2 |
0.00 |
0.78 |
1.21 |
1.22 |
1.65 |
1.67 |
1.68 |
|
3 |
0.00 |
0.76 |
1.10 |
1.61 |
1.68 |
1.80 |
1.90 |
|
Mean |
0.00 |
0.77 |
1.11 |
1.36 |
1.51 |
1.61 |
1.66 |
|
Standard Deviation |
- |
0.01 |
0.07 |
0.18 |
0.22 |
0.17 |
0.15 |
Table 5 : Data for testing kinetic models of leaf essential oil extraction from Curcuma mannga from the “plateau des Cataractes”
|
Time t (h) |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
1/t |
- |
1 |
0.50 |
0.33 |
0.25 |
0.20 |
0.17 |
|
Yt (g /100 g ) |
0.00 |
0.77 |
1.11 |
1.36 |
1.51 |
1.61 |
1.66 |
|
y = mt/m∞ |
0.00 |
0.46 |
0.67 |
0.82 |
0.91 |
0.97 |
1.00 |
|
1/Yt |
- |
1.30 |
0.90 |
0.74 |
0.66 |
0.62 |
0.60 |
|
1/y |
- |
2.17 |
1.49 |
1.22 |
1.10 |
1.03 |
1.00 |
|
t/y |
- |
2.17 |
2.99 |
3.66 |
4.40 |
5.15 |
6.00 |
|
t/Yt |
- |
1.30 |
1.80 |
2.21 |
2.65 |
3.11 |
3.61 |
|
ln (1/(1-y)) |
0.00 |
0.63 |
1.11 |
1.72 |
2.41 |
3.51 |
- |
Yt = f(t) has the general shape of the metabolite extraction curves (vegetable oil, essential oil, polyphenols, carotenoids, etc.) from solid plant matrices (stem, leaf, flower, roots, rhizome, bark, etc.) In Figure 1, one distinguishes its two characteristic steps, schematized by the straight lines a and b28. The break in slope supports the hypothesis of the two steps extraction: (i) rapid washing for the extraction of the metabolite in the broken cells (line a) and (ii) slow diffusion of the metabolite in the cells which have remained intact before extraction at the solid-liquid interface (line b). This is the 2 steps extraction as suggested by Milojevic et al.17 in the phenomenological approach. When the washing step of the broken cells is very rapid compared to that of the intra-particle diffusion of the intact cells, the process proceeds as pseudo first order kinetic. Otherwise, it proceeds like kinetic of order 2. The experimental results validate one of the two hypotheses.
Figure 1: Variation of the extraction yield Y (%) as a function of extraction time t for Curcuma mangga from «Plateau des Cataractes».
The results of Table 5 and straight line in figure 2 validate the first order kinetics (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Validation of the pseudo first order model with experimental data of Curcuma mangga leaf essential oils from « plateau des Cataractes »
Without washing step, the extraction of the essential oil of Curcuma mannga from the “plateau des Cataractes” run under a pseudo first order diffusion mechanism given by the equation ln(1/(1-y)) =0.6714 t - 0.1152 with a kinetic constant k = 0.6714 h-1, a good coefficient of determination R2 = 0,9798 and a half-process time t1/2 = 0.693/k = 1.03 h. The intercept of the straight line and time axis (ordinate at the origin) different of 0 validates the existence of a rapid washing step prior to the diffusion controlled one (Figure 2). One needs Y∞, yield at t = ∞ for validation of the pseudo first order kinetics; it corresponds to the value of the asymptotic ending of Yt = f (t), and is equal to 1.66 %. The straight line 1/Yt = f(1/t) leads to Y∞, by extrapolation to t = ∞ (1/t = 0). Figure 3 gives, by its ordinate at the origin, Y∞ = 2.19 %.
Figure 3: Graphical determination of Y∞ by 1/Yt = 0.8513(1/t) + 0.4557 (R² = 0.9985). Moreover, the straight line 1/Yt = f (1/t) is also used for the validation of the Monod model which postulates a variation Yt = f(t) similar to that of the enzymatic kinetics based on the Michaelis –Menten equation22, 29: Yt = Ymax [1 / (Km + t)] Eq11/Yt = (Km/Ymax) (1/t) + (1/Ymax) Eq2 with Y: yield of extracted oil at time t (g/100g); Ymax, yield at time t∞,; Ymax/Km: slope of straight line, Km: Monod equation parameter. The equation 1/Yt = 0.8513(1/t) + 0.4557, (R² = 0.9985, Figure 3) leads to Ymax = 1/0.4557 = 2.19 % and kinetic constant Km = 0.8513x 2.19 % = 1.87 % h-1. Mejri29 validate the Monod model with experimental data of essential oil extraction from Ruta chalepensis: Km=80.28 min (ml/100g)-1; Ymax= 7.69 mL/100g, R2= 0.99. The essential oil extraction of Ruta chalepensis according to the Monod model is done twice as slowly but leads to more than 4 times more essential oil than in Curcuma mangga.
Data on Table 6 validate Peleg's model with a very good coefficient of determination (Figure 4, R2 = 0,9983).
The extraction of leaf essential oil from Curcuma mangga from the “Plateau des Cataractes” can be considered as a two-step extraction (washing/diffusion) based on Peleg's modified model. The straight line t/Yt = f(t) leads to the Peleg kinetic constant K1 = 0.852 h.%-1, the Peleg extraction capacity constant: K2 = 0.4537 %-1 and kinetic constant of hydrodistilation k= K2/K1 = 0.5325 h-1
Figure 4: Validation of the Peleg model with experimental data of Curcuma mangga from « plateau des Cataractes »
These values should be compared with the those obtained elsewhere relating: Cymbopogon nardus30, K1 = 0.76 min. %-1; K2=35.08 %-1, k= 0,0200 – 0.0215 min-1; Ocimum basilicum31 : the second order rate constant K1 varies from 3.4468-7.4456 min. %-1 and the extraction capacity constant K2 from 0.9361 to 0.9701 %-1, k =0.1303-0.271 min-1, Cymbopogon winterianius26 : K1 = 19.09 min. (g/g)-1 and K2 = 0.0301 (g/g)-1. The extraction of essential oils from Cymbopogon nardus, Ocimum basilicum, Cymbopogon winterianus and Curcuma mangga which can be described by the same model, involves very variable extraction times. Two types of hypotheses on the extraction mechanism are validated by the experimental data for Cucurma mangga leaves: (i) A washing step negligible to the intra-particle diffusion, the extraction follows pseudo first order kinetics with k = 0.6714 h-1; t1/2 = 1.03 h; Y∞exp = 1.66 % and Y∞th = 2.19%. (ii) the extraction behaves as a two-step process, according to the modified Peleg model, with a kinetic constant of order 2, K1 = 0, 852 h.%-1 and an extraction capacity constant, K2 = 0,4537 %-1.
Do the major constituents analyzed for each fraction collected as a function of the extraction time (Table 6) obey the same kinetics or do they evolve independently of the overall total essential oil kinetics on the one hand and independently of each other’s during the extraction, on another hand?
Oil major constituent extraction:
Figure 5 shows the behavior of the first seven major constituents of oil. .
Figure 5: Extraction curves for the main constituents of the leaf essential oil of Cucurma mangga from the « Plateau des Cataractes » in Congo-Brazzaville
The variation of their constituent contents during the extraction process was highlighted by the radar-plots of the essential oils collected in different fractions of the total oil: the content of ar-cucurmene, α-zingiberene, β-bisabolone and β-sesquiphellandrene increases and that of 1,8-cineole decreases (figure 6).
Figure 6 : Radar-plots of major constituents of different fractions of the leaf curcuma manga leaf essential oils from “plateau des Cataractes”
Figure 5 highlights at least three extraction patterns : (i) the behavior similar to that of total essential oil with regard to ar-cucurmene, the most abundant constituent in the oil; (ii) the almost linear increase in content of β bisabolone, β sequiphellandrene and α zingiberene, constituents in the middle of the scale of individual contents; (ii) the steady decrease in the content of cineole, camphor and pinenes, constituents at the bottom of the scale, after a maximum increase during the first hour of extraction.
Table 6: Extraction of the main constituents of Curcuma mangga leaf essential oil from the « Plateau des Cataractes » in Congo-Brazzaville
|
Time t (h) |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
ᾳ-pinene |
5.38 |
1.36 |
0.34 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
β-pinene |
4.32 |
1.20 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
1,8-cinéole |
21.34 |
7.29 |
2.36 |
1.05 |
0.22 |
0.45 |
|
Camphor |
6.11 |
2.58 |
1.15 |
0.53 |
0.27 |
0.394 |
|
Ar-curcumene |
8.74 |
18.99 |
23.13 |
23.6 |
20.72 |
18.61 |
|
ᾳ-zingiberene |
4.22 |
9.54 |
15.62 |
24.08 |
27.81 |
31.31 |
|
β-bisabolone |
1.87 |
4.26 |
6.32 |
8.41 |
9.22 |
9.37 |
|
β-sesquiphellandrene |
5.04 |
10.92 |
16.1 |
20.83 |
23.13 |
24.82 |
|
Caryophyllene-oxide |
1.31 |
0.62 |
0.28 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
Curzerenone |
2.90 |
4.26 |
0.37 |
2.66 |
2.00 |
1.63 |
|
Germacrone |
5.22 |
3.89 |
3.33 |
2.06 |
1.16 |
0.62 |
|
bisabolone<6S,7R-> |
1.84 |
2.34 |
1.68 |
0.85 |
0.71 |
0.25 |
Pattern 1:
Ar-cucurmene, the first constituent of oil, presents an extraction curve similar to that of the extraction of the total oil up to 4 hours of extraction, which is a sufficient time for the extraction in the labo-scale of almost all of the essential oils met in the literature. Beyond 4 hours, the essential oil evolves in an asymptotic ending, while the curve of ar-cucurmene begins a gradually decreasing (Figure 5). The experimental data validate the kinetic model of the pseudo first order, despite the reduced number of experimental points and do not validate the modified Peleg model (Table 7). The extraction of the major constituent is carried out as for the total oil according to the pseudo first order kinetic model up to 4 hours of extraction, out of the 6 hours required to extract 90 % of total essential oil (Figure 7 : ln[1/(1-y)] = 1.75t - 1.5233 with R² = 0.9681). The content of this constituent gradually decreases during the asymptotic cessation of the extraction of total oil.
Figure 7: Fitting pseudo first order model to experimental data for ar-curcumene
Table 7: Data used for model test for ar- curcumene.
|
t(h) |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
Y(%) |
0 |
8.74 |
18.99 |
23.13 |
23.60 |
20.72 |
18.61 |
|
y=Yt/Y∞ |
0 |
0.37 |
0.80 |
0.98 |
1.00 |
- |
- |
|
ln[1 /(1-y)] |
- |
0.41 |
1.61 |
3.91 |
- |
|
|
Pattern 2:
Three sesquiterpenes which follow ar-cucurmene: α-zingiberene, β-bisabolone and β-sesquiphellandrene are extracted according to a kinetic of order 0, i.e. at constant rate (table 1), with very good coefficients of determination varying from 0.9267 to 0.9828 (Figure 8), with, α-zingiberene and β-sesquiphellandrene which come out 3 to 4 times faster (k = 5.6777 %.h-1 and 4.0074 %.h-1) than β-bisabolone (k = 1.5563 %.h-1).
Pattern 3:
Three other constituents: 1,8 cineole, α and β pinenes and β bisabolone constitute the third example. Their representative curves go through a maximum oil content greater than 5% and which may exceed 20 % from the first hour of extraction. Taking into account the uncertainty of the oil evolution at the initial instants of the extraction, it is difficult to discuss meaning of the passage through a maximum content for these three constituents, two of which are minor constituents and the third behaves like minor in 5 out of 6 samples. It seems more judicious to focus attention on the continuous decrease in the contents of these three constituents after the first hour (about 17 % of the total duration of extraction) to characterize the process.
Figure 8: Validation of 0-order kinetics by the experimental extraction data of α-zingiberene, β-bisabolone and β-sesquiphellandrene
However, one can well imagine a provision of all of these constituents by an extremely fast mechanism at the diffusion stage which controls a much slower extraction. It would be more judicious to move towards a numerical simulation to test empirical models according Semerdjieva et al. work32. But such work has a limited impact on the practical aspects of our research on the “plateau des Cataractes” in Congo-Brazzaville. However, the general appearance of the extraction curves in the figure refers to the Monod model based on the basic assumptions of enzymatic kinetics and as we saw previously is validated by the line 1/Yt = f (1/t). These curves recall the evolution of the enzyme- substrate complex from the quasi-stationary state in enzymatic kinetics for species present in low or even very low concentration. Unfortunately the experimental results do not validate this last model.
CONCLUSION:
The experimental data of the extraction of essential oil from the leaves of Curcuma manga from the “plateau des Cataractes” validate two models of the phenonenological approach. These are in increasing order of relevance: (i) the pseudo first order Milojevic model and (ii) the Peleg model. The extraction takes place in two steps: (i) a step of rapid washing of the essential oil located at the surface of the broken cells and (ii) a step controlled by the intra-particular diffusion of the essential oil into the cells remaining intact. When the washing step is very fast compared to the diffusion step, the mechanism involves in a simple pseudo first order kinetic. Otherwise, the mechanism is related to the empirical model of Peleg characterized by a kinetic constant allowing to access the kinetic constant of extraction of order 2 and a constant of extraction capacity allowing to reach the oil concentration at equilibrium at the end of extraction (t∞). These two models lead to concordant results which can be used for scaling-up of extraction processes. The extraction of the first five constituents, representing (61 -66 %) of the total oil is carried out according to 3 highly probable patterns: (i) pseudo first order kinetics for the most abundant constituent representing nearly a third of the essential oil (ar- curcumene); (ii) zero order kinetics for the abundant constituents of the oil and (iii) complex kinetics with the passage through a maximum after one hour of extraction for constituents in small quantities. This observation reflects the extreme complexity of the phenomenon of extracting essential oils.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Received on 25.10.2020 Modified on 21.11.2020
Accepted on 12.01.2021 ©AJRC All right reserved
Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry. 2021; 14(3):186-194.
DOI: 10.52711/0974-4150.2021.00034