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Supercritical Fluids in Green Technologies

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Practical Aspects of Chemical Engineering

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Supercritical fluid technologies offer the possibility to obtain new products with special characteristics or to design new processes, which are environmentally friendly and sustainable. By using supercritical fluids as the processing media, one can also avoid the problem of solvent residues and restrictions on the use of conventional organic solvents in industrial technologies. In this overview some novel applications of supercritical fluids are presented and the future expected development in the field of high pressure green technologies is outlined.

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Research financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, Project No. 2014/15/N/ST8/01516.

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  1. Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Marek Henczka & Jan Krzysztoforski

  2. Department of Chemical Technologies, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Małgorzata Djas

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  1. Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Marek Ochowiak

  2. Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Szymon Woziwodzki

  3. Institute of Metrology, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Michał Doligalski

  4. Poznan University of Technology , Poznan, Poland

    Piotr Tomasz Mitkowski

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Henczka, M., Djas, M., Krzysztoforski, J. (2018). Supercritical Fluids in Green Technologies. In: Ochowiak, M., Woziwodzki, S., Doligalski, M., Mitkowski, P. (eds) Practical Aspects of Chemical Engineering. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73978-6_10

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