TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA

363 P. CASAL ST. QUIAPO, MANILA

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
(CHEM 005)

SOLVENT EXTRACTION OF OIL FROM CINNAMON BARK

SUBMITTED BY:
CUESTA, ALWYN WREN
CRUZ, ALYSSA MARZEN
DE GUIA, JEAN JADE
CARREON, NICO
COMPUESTO, CHENNY

SUBMITTED TO:

ENGR. JUANITA C. APOSTOL

Objectives

- To extract and characterize an essential oil using an

industrially employed technique in extraction.
- To learn the art of oil extracting.
- To produce a cinnamon essential oil.

II. Discussion
- Essential oils are some highly volatile organic substances
that can be isolated from odoriferous plants by various
physical processes. The oils are usually concentrated in the
seeds or flowers but may exist in other parts of the plants as
well. Such oils were called essential because they were
thought to represent the very essence of odor and flavor.
Essential oils can be obtained from plants by a number of
processes such as mechanical pressing and grinding,
maceration, solvent extraction, distillation and
concentration. In many cases a combination of processes are
required for an efficient and effective isolation.
- Chemists are interested in identifying the chemical
structures of the isolated essential oils. Having known the
chemical structure of the oils, chemists can synthesize the
essential oils in the laboratories, so that the sources of the
essential oils are no longer confined by the availability of the
plants.

III. Materials Used

IV. Procedure

- Weigh 20.0 g of cinnamon and grind it into small pieces with

mortar and pestle. Transfer the spice into a round-bottomed
flask. Add a few pieces of anti-bumping granules to the flask.

- Add 150 mL of ethyl acetate to the round-bottomed flask and

attach a water-cooled condenser to the flask. Heat the
mixture under reflux for 15-20 minutes.
- Cool the mixture to room temperature and carefully decant
the solution into a clean Erlenmeyer flask. Rinse the residue
in the round-bottomed flask with a small amount of ethyl
acetate and combine it with the solution in the conical flask.
- Add a small amount of anhydrous MgSO4. Swirl the contents
for about 30 seconds and filter the mixture.
- Place a few pieces of boiling chips into a clean distilling flask
and weigh the flask. Transfer the filtrate into the flask.
- Assemble the apparatus for simple distillation. Remove the
solvent from the mixture by simple distillation.
- When the solvent is distilled out completely, disassemble the
apparatus and weigh the round-bottomed flask with the oily
residue. The oily residue is the essential oil.
- Determine the weight of the essential oil isolated. Calculate
the essential oil content of the cinnamon bark.

V. Photographs

VI. Data and Results

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Mass of Cinnamon Bark: 20 grams

Mass of Beaker: 161.470 grams
Mass of Beaker and Oil: 161.868 grams
Mass of Cinnamon Oil Extracted: 0.398 grams
Percent Recovery: 2% recovery

VII. Questions
1 Name the essential oil isolated from the process.
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2 Identify the processes used in the isolation process.
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VIII. Conclusion
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IX. References
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