Analyse experimentally the extraction process of the essential oil of seeds and aerial parts of puxuri for drag with steam. The puxuri, [Licaria puchury-major (Mart.)] Kosterm., Lauraceae], is a species of the Amazon forest with great potential for the Bioproducts Industry (pharmaceu-ticals, cosmetics, food and natural pesticide) due to the presence of safrole in its essential oil. This work is an anatomical study and physical and chemical characterization of plant parts used for oil extraction. Studying the kinetics of drying of seeds, thin branches and leaves of puxuri and quantifies the influence of convective drying in fixed bed in safrole content and moisture content. Through statistically designed experiments, identify levels of process variables: mois-ture content, particle size and extraction time of samples of seed of puxuri, that optimize both answers the responses: in essential oil yield and content of safrole, its major component, within the experimental domain adopted and 90% confidence (α = 0.10) in the extraction process of the essential oil by steam drag. Chemically analyzed the essential oil of puxuri by GC-MS and iden-tifies the chemical composition in terms of their senior constituents. Using the gravimetric ap-proximation method static with concentrated solutions, desorption isotherms are obtained for puxuri seeds powder, in temperatures 15, 25 and 35ºC. The experimental data hygroscopic equi-librium, fits very well the GAB model, being estimated the heats of sorption liquid and inte-grals, in addition to the equilibrium moisture content in monolayer and other constants in the equation. Noted low toxicity of essential oil of puxuri and the solid residue of extraction can be used as material for the production of saponifiable transparent soaps to cold.
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