In the first stage of this two-stage process, crude rice bran oil wasextracted with supercritical carbondioxide (SC-CO
2) from a 300 g batch of rice bran.Oil-laden SC-CO
2 from the extractor (24.1MPa/40
C) passed continuously to a second-stage column where an oil phase(raffinate) separated fromthe SC-CO
2 at various controlled temperatures andpressures. Measurement of the compositionsof raffinates and extracts allowed calculation of partitioncoefficients of triglycerides, free fatty acids(FFAs),
-tocopherol, sterols, and oryzanol and, hence, theselectivities of the fractionations.Fractionation removed almost all water and reduced the FFAconcentration in raffinate by up to50%. Oryzanol and
-tocopherol concentrations in the raffinatewere not reduced by fractionation,but the sterol concentration was reduced under conditions favoring FFAremoval. Under the flowrate conditions studied (3.5 kg of CO
2/h), thefractionations could be described by equilibria betweenoil and CO
2 phases.Keywords: Supercritical carbon dioxide; extraction; fractionation; ricebran oil