The invention discloses a novel method for extracting and separating
euphausia superba oil. The
krill meal contains substances such as
krill phospholipid,
krill oil,
fatty acid,
astaxanthin,
small molecule polypeptide,
organic arsenic, basic
nitrogen with heavy fishy smell and the like. The process of the substances or impurities from the
shrimp powder to the
solvent belongs to
diffusion control, namely the lower the content in the
solvent is, the faster the
diffusion is, and the minimum amount of the needed
solvent is, the higher the extraction yield is. Therefore, a
percolation method is most suitable for extracting the
shrimp oil, the
shrimp powder is always in contact with a fresh solvent, and the maximum concentration difference, namely the maximum
diffusion power, is kept. The
percolation process is similar to the
chromatography process, different substances are different in sequence when eluted due to different molecular structures, and the krill
phospholipid and the oil are enriched respectively. When the same shrimp
powder is used, compared with an extraction stirring method and a
percolation method, the percolation method has the advantages that the solvent dosage is nearly half less, and the shrimp powder can be completely extracted only by absolute ethyl
alcohol with the volume 6 times that of the shrimp powder. And the yield is 1-2% higher than that of a stirring method. If a product containing 56% of
phospholipid needs to be produced, extraction can be completed only by absolute ethyl
alcohol with the volume 2-3 times that of the
mass of the shrimp
meal. In the
percolation process,
time difference exists between extraction (or
elution) of the krill phospholipid and extraction (or
elution) of the
krill oil, and
krill oil products with different phospholipid contents can be conveniently obtained by utilizing the characteristic.