The invention provides a
marigold extract preparation
system and method.The
marigold extract preparation
system comprises a pretreatment unit, a mixing unit, a desolventizing unit and a
saponification and purification unit, the
saponification and purification unit comprises an alkali adding module, a membrane separation module and a
secondary treatment module, the alkali adding module is used for adding
potassium hydroxide into an extracting solution for
saponification to obtain a saponified solution, and the membrane separation module is used for carrying out membrane separation on the saponified solution; the membrane separation module is used for filtering the saponification liquid to obtain relatively pure ultrafiltrate, and the
secondary treatment module is used for carrying out
water washing,
alcohol washing and recrystallization on the ultrafiltrate to obtain
lutein crystals. Specific extraction
solvent, extraction time, extraction temperature, extraction
solvent volume ratio and extraction times are given, a saponification process and a purification process of the
xanthophyll extracting solution are optimized to obtain the
xanthophyll extract with the purity of 95%, the
xanthophyll extract is recrystallized to obtain the xanthophyll
crystal with a good form, the purity of the xanthophyll
crystal reaches 98.5% or above, and the xanthophyll
crystal has a good crystal form. The enrichment degree of the xanthophyll is higher, and membrane holes are not easy to block.