The invention relates to the technical field of
plant essential oil extraction, and discloses a valerian-rich rhizoma nardostachyos
essential oil directional preparation process, which comprises: taking a functionalized compound
solvent, adding rhizoma nardostachyos coarse
powder according to a liquid-
solid ratio, stirring and soaking to obtain a
solid-liquid mixture; the
solvent component comprises process water,
sodium xylene sulfonate,
dipotassium phosphate and
polyethylene glycol 400; introducing steam into the mixture, heating to maintain slight boiling, carrying out first-stage
distillation, and removing distilled low-boiling-point components to obtain resident in the kettle; cooling the resident to a constant temperature, adding
sodium chloride, and stirring until the
sodium chloride is dissolved to obtain a heterogeneous mixed
system; the
heating system is subjected to second-stage
distillation, and distillate is collected; and carrying out oil-water separation on the distillate, and collecting an
oil phase to obtain a finished product of the rhizoma nardostachyos
essential oil. According to the method disclosed by the invention, a hydrotropy-
salting-out
phase change mechanism is matched with
fractional distillation, so that high-efficiency
desorption and directional enrichment of valerianone which is difficult to volatilize are realized while acidic and light component impurities are removed.