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Decaffeination is the removal of caffeine from coffee beans, cocoa, tea leaves, and other caffeine-containing materials. Decaffeinated products are commonly termed by the abbreviation decaf. Decaffeinated drinks contain typically 1–2% of the original caffeine content, but sometimes as much as 20%. [1]
Starbucks, for example, has three ways to remove caffeine: the natural decaffeination process, which uses liquid carbon dioxide forced into stainless steel tanks at high pressure, drawing out and ...
The most common decaffeination process used in the United States is supercritical carbon dioxide (CO 2) extraction. In this process, moistened green coffee beans are contacted with large quantities of supercritical CO 2 (CO 2 maintained at a pressure of about 4,000 pounds force per square inch (28 MPa) and temperatures between 90 and 100 °C ...
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is the most used supercritical fluid, sometimes modified by co-solvents such as ethanol or methanol. Extraction conditions for supercritical carbon dioxide are above the critical temperature of 31 °C and critical pressure of 74 bar. Addition of modifiers may slightly alter this.
During the manufacturing process, decaf producers add solvents like methylene chloride or ethyl acetate (an alternative derived from sugarcane) to bind to the caffeine in green coffee beans. This ...
Supercritical drying, also known as critical point drying, is a process to remove liquid in a precise and controlled way. [1] It is useful in the production of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), the drying of spices, the production of aerogel, the decaffeination of coffee and in the preparation of biological specimens. [2]
This process continues for approximately 8 hours, until the beans are 99.9% caffeine-free. Following decaffeination, the trapped caffeine is removed from the carbon filter. The flavor-charged water is then recycled to the start of the process for the next batch of beans. DMacks 19:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Concur.
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