1st Edition

Supercritical Fluid Technology (1991) Reviews in Modern Theory and Applications

By Thomas J. Bruno, James F. Ely Copyright 1991

    In this volume, we have collected a series of reviews that cover both experimental and theoretical work geared toward the more exact requirements of current SFE applications. While we have artificially divided the volume into experimental and theoretical sections, natural overlaps will be apparent. Many of the papers on experimental and theoretical sections, natural overlaps will be apparent. Many of the papers on experimental technique contain discussions on equation of state correlations. Indeed, a good deal of the experimental work is intimately tied to a mathematical description of fluid mixtures.

    The theoretical section presents reviews that cover the modern theory of critical phenomena, methods to correlate near critical experimental results and approaches to understanding the behavior of near critical fluids from microscopic theory. It is hoped that the scope of these reviews will provide the reader with the basis to further develop our understanding of the behavior of supercritical fluids.

    PART 1: THEORY OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS

    Chaper 1

    Thermodynamics of Solutions Near the Solvent's Critical Point

    Chaper 2

    Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium and the Modified Leung-Griffiths Model

    Chaper 3

    Molecular Analysis of Phase Equilibria in Supercritical Fluids

    Chaper 4

    Fluctuation Theory of Sueprcritical Solutions

    Chaper 5

    Application of Molecular Simulation to the Study of Supercritical Extraction

    Chaper 6

    Transport Properties of Supercritical Fluids and Fluid Mixtures

    PART 2: EXPERIMENTAL WORK AND APPLICATIONS

    Chapter 7

    Thermophysical Property data for Supercritical Extraction Design

    Chaper 8

    Properties of Carbon Dioxide Rich Mixtures

    Chapter 9

    Thermal Conductivity and Difffusivity in Supercritical Fluids

    Chapter 10

    Mass Transfer in Supercritical Extraction from Solid Matrices

    Chapter 11

    Design and Control of Supercritical Processes: A Review

    Chapter 12

    Microemulsions in Near Critical and Supercritical Fluids

    Chapter 13

    Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Retrograde Condensation (SFE/RC)

    Chapter 14

    Supercritical Extraction in Environment Control

    Chapter 15

    Reactions In and With Supercritical Fluids

    Chapter 16

    A Summary of the Patent Literature of Supercritical Fluid Technology

    Index