“…It has not only increasingly been extensively used for the extraction of various natural products (Díaz-Reinoso, Moure, Domínguez, & Parajó, 2006), and also used for microorganism sterilization (Damar & Balaban, 2006), enzyme inactivation and food drying (Brown, Fryer, Norton, Bakalis, & Bridson, 2008). The advantages of SC-CO 2 extraction of plant oils over conventional extraction include a low critical temperature, shorter extraction time, higher selectivity and no solvent residue in the extract.…”