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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Distillation of Cinnamon Leaf Oil

Cinnamon leaf oil is regarded mainly as a by product in the processing of cinnamon bark into quills. When harvesting the stem for the peeling of inner bark, the leaves with twigs and tender stems are trimmed and left in the field. After keeping for few days, the leaves are bound into boundles. The leaves should not be left on the field for wilting more than 3 days. If so percentage of volatile oil that could be extracted from leaves will be decreased. The bundles are transferred to the distillation site. A traditional field still consists of a still body generally made of wood with a steel "goose neck" and steel condenser tubes immersed in a static water tank. But modern still is fabricated out of stainless steel. There is pre-cooler to cool the vapour prior to entry into the main cooling unit. The steam is generated in separate copper boiler fired with fire wood and with leaves descarded after distillation. Five florentine vessels are used in series to separate the oil.


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