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Continuous, Efficient and In-Situ Harvest of Natural Aromas

Continuous, Efficient and In-Situ Harvest of Natural Aromas. Jamil Rima 1 The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon 2 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. As fresh as natural flowers. Who I am. Jamil Rima, PhD Professor, Chemistry Department, The Lebanese

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Continuous, Efficient and In-Situ Harvest of Natural Aromas

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  1. Continuous, Efficient and In-Situ Harvest of Natural Aromas JamilRima 1 The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon 2 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA As fresh as natural flowers

  2. Who I am • Jamil Rima, PhDProfessor, Chemistry Department, The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon Research Interest: -Molecular encapsulation - Environmental Chemistry, Biochemistry & Biotechnology

  3. Traditional practices Novel concept Technology Overview Concept: harvest fruits, harvest crops, and now harvest aromas! This revolutionary technology allows to directly harvest natural aromas from plants and flowers in the field. The harvested aromas smell as fresh as natural flowers!

  4. Key and Unique Features It is a simple, but elegant method to harvestaromas (essential oils) in the field. Two simple steps: collection of aromas in the field and recovery of the aromas in the lab, no chemical changes. The harvested aromas smell as fresh flowers.

  5. Advantages and Benefits

  6. Chemical compositions of Pikaki essential oil extracted by hydro distillation and by our trapper encapsulationsome chemicals extracted by hydro-distillation are toxic

  7. Advantages and Benefits High Quality Fragrant (smell as fresh flowers): • Fresh aroma compositions: Collect aromas with no chemical changes; • Natural aroma molecules: Minimize chemical reactions; • “Green” aromas: i.e., recover the collected essential oils with supercritical CO2 fluid. High Yield: Maximize yields by continuous collection of aromas from the same exotic flowers during the season, compared with traditional cut of flowers. Low Cost: may be lower than traditional methods (automation vs labor cost)

  8. Flowers Design of Aroma Collection Air Pump Greenhouse Air output Molecular traps Air input Simple addition to existing greenhouse Air pump Molecular trap

  9. Recovery of Essential Oils with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

  10. GC-MS chromatograms Aroma profile by our technology Many new chemicals occur from reactions, destruction and degradation during the hydrodistillation process Aroma profile by Hydrodistillation Chemical Compositions in Aromas Harvested from White Ginger Flowers with our Technology in the Field and Hydrodistillation of cut Flowers

  11. Gardenia flower extracts smell as fresh as the wild flowers! GC-MS Chromatogram of Essential Oils Harvested with our Technology from Freshly Cut Gardenia Flowers (not good using traditional technologies such as hydrodistillation)

  12. Aroma Production Yields from Freshly Cut White Gingers by using our Technology and Hydrodistillation It can get 2 ml of essential oil from 1 kg of fresh rosemary in 24 hours.

  13. Uses of Aroma • beverages • foods • food supplements • health care products • therapeutic products • pharmaceutical products • detergents • cosmetics • perfumes

  14. Market Description and Demand Assessment • Fragrance Market Size: ?? $ billons/yr in US; ?? $ billions/yr worldwide • High Value Perfumes Hollywood?

  15. Competition • Aroma Producers • China • India • Large US Producers: • International Flavor & Fragrance • Givaudan Aroma Sources • Synthetic aromas • Natural aromas

  16. Current Status and Timeline Economic feasibility?  What are next steps?  How much funding will be needed? What will the funds be used for? ?? • Licensing • Industrial scale To do Scale-up Initial Design To do Proof of Concept done What business model? Initial customers? High value perfumes and colognes? done

  17. Proprietary Position • Dr JamilRima • Trap design and molecular trappers

  18. Contact Jamil Rima Jamil.rima1@gmail.com Phone number + 961 3 321 833 Lebanon

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