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In the wake of energy crisis, the alternatives for energy sources
are much demanded. the use of herbs and plants in food industry has
a long history. the disversity among the components of the plants
has resulted in their use in many applications including flavors
and medicine. The conventional methods for the extraction of
essential oils such as Hydrodistillation (HD)and soxhlet in which
the essential oils are evaporated by heating a mixture of water and
plant materials followed by the liquefaction of the vapors in a
condenser. These methods suffers from several disadvantages
including losses in the volatile compounds, long extraction time
and degradation of some components through thermal
process.Microwave heating has an incontestable place in analytical
and organic laboratory practices. In this book, microwave-assisted
hydrodistillation (MAHD)was used to extract an essential oil from
ginger. Results were compared with conventional hydrodistillation
method. Results show that MAHD faster in extraction time, yield and
costs compared with HD method.
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