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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2013
Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US);
Tobias Bruecher, Hamburg, DE;
Johan Demey, Brasschaat, BE;
Matthias Katte, Hamburg, DE;
Jeff Molnar, Bellbrook, OH (US);
Susanne Tirok, Hamburg, DE;
CARGILL, INCORPORATED, Wayzata, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a counter-current extraction process involving a plurality of mixing and separation stages for fractionating a phospholipid-containing feed material into two or more fractions enriched in one or more phospholipids, comprising (a) contacting the phospholipid-containing starting material under agitation with an extractant comprising an aliphatic alcohol selected from C1 to C3 alcohols; (b) separating the obtained emulsion into a phospholipid-enriched extract from a residual raffinate.