Study of Extraction of Eugenol from Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Dalchini)

Spices enriched with pharmaceutically active ingredients that are helpful for health. Cinnamon is known both as a spice and as a medicine. Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Dalchini) contain eugenol is one the important constituent used as essential oil in several applications. Essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile substances generally present at low concentrations.

This paper gives experimental studies on extraction of eugenol by conventional extraction techniques. The systematic investigation of effects of various operating parameters on percentage extraction of eugenol studied such as effect of solvent, temperature, speed of agitation, and particle size. The Ethanol is found to be best solvent while smaller particle size gives higher yield of extraction of eugenol from Cinnamomum Zeylanicum. At higher temperature the yield gets higher.