The invention concerns an integrated process affording the production of purified fractions, as powder or concentrated solution, consisting of different biologically active compounds and families of compounds, starting from olive tree tissues and wastes of the olive oil industry and olive tree cultures, in particular olive tree leaves and twigs (pruning wastes), residues from the oil production (pomace or husks) and pigmented olive pulp. The refined products obtainable comprise not only oleuropein, hydroxytyrosol and related compounds, but also verbascoside and red anthocyanoside pigments.
The proposed process is based on the integration of hot or cold extraction from the various vegetal starting materials with separation techniques by membrane tangential filtration, specifically microfiltration (MF) or ultrafiltration (UF), optionally followed by nanofiltration (NF) and completed by reverse osmosis (Ol). These operations are completed, where necessary, by refining treatments of the thus obtained fractions of UF retentate, NF retentate and Ol retentate on chromatographic resins.
本发明涉及一种综合工艺,该工艺可生产粉末状或浓缩溶液状的纯化馏分,这些馏分由不同的
生物活性化合物和化合物家族组成,原料来自橄榄树组织以及橄榄油工业和橄榄树栽培过程中产生的废弃物,特别是橄榄树叶和树枝(修剪废弃物)、橄榄油生产过程中产生的残渣(果渣或果壳)以及带色素的橄榄果肉。可获得的精制产品不仅包括油菜素、
羟基酪醇和相关化合物,还包括
马鞭草苷和红色花色苷色素。
拟议工艺的基础是从各种植物起始材料中进行热提取或冷提取,并采用切向膜过滤分离技术,特别是微滤(MF)或超滤(UF),之后可选择纳滤(NF),最后采用反渗透(OL)。必要时,对由此获得的 UF 回流液、NF 回流液和 Ol 回流液馏分在色谱
树脂上进行精制处理,以完成这些操作。