are recently focused as a source of biofuel. To extract these components, organic solvent or
supercritical carbon dioxide have been used. We have been developing wet extraction
process using liquefied (subcritical) dimethyl ether (DME) as solvent at around 0.59 MPa.
The extraction process usually requires energy consuming drying and grinding process as
in the case of supercritical CO 2. We have applied liquefied DME for the extraction of lipids …