Essential oil extraction from java citronella cymbopogon winterianus jowitt and valorisation of the spent biomass to value added chemicals

Abstract

The present study mainly emphasises on investigating a suitable technique for the extraction of essential oil from Java citronella Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt Distillation methods which are relatively simple cheap environment friendly produce good quality oil are preferred for essential oil extraction from grasses Thus in this thesis hydro distillation technique was used to estimate the quantity of essential oil present in different parts of Java citronella plant Hydro distillation...