Supercritical Fluid Technology in Industry
Recent Advances and Challenges (2014-2024)
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Ádina L. Santana
- Language: English
Supercritical Fluid Technology in Industry: Recent Advances and Challenges (2014-2024) offers new insights into the theoretical and industrial applications of multiple proces… Read more
Supercritical Fluid Technology in Industry: Recent Advances and Challenges (2014-2024) offers new insights into the theoretical and industrial applications of multiple processes included in supercritical technology - combining a review of the established literature with recent advances in theory, current applications, and case studies, to help promote more a sustainable research approach. This books outlines supercritical fluid technology and processes operated with substances at conditions above or near the critical point and enables the reader to understand the basic steps of equipment and processing, explains the different methods of using supercritical technology and applications, current developments that increase economic feasibility and reduce environmental impact. Supercritical Fluid Technology in Industry will be a great guide for anyone looking to supercritical technology as a means of optimizing existing processes or designing new processes with sustainability in mind; this includes industry experts, researchers, academics, students at graduate level and above. This book will also be of value to researchers working with supercritical fluid in other industries, such as the food, pharmaceutical, mineral, electronics, engineering and energy fields.
- Provides detailed methodology and experimental design information, including details on equipment, instrumentation and basic steps in processing with supercritical fluid technology
- Outlines different methodologies and techniques that use supercritical fluid technology, including real world applications and case studies
- Details recent advances in supercritical fluid technology, and applications for sustainable chemical production, carbon capture methodology, improving economic feasibility and decreasing environmental impact on chemical processes
- Outlines current trends into theory and practice of supercritical fluid-based technologies in the food, pharmaceutical, mineral, electronics, and chemical fields
Anyone looking to supercritical technology as a means of optimizing existing processes or designing new processes with sustainability in mind; this includes industry experts, researchers, academics, students at graduate level and above
1. Supercritical Fluid Extraction
2. Pressurized Liquid Extraction
3. Encapsulation with supercritical fluids and compressed liquids
4. Concentration of molecules with supercritical fluids and compressed liquids
5. Fractionation and purification of molecules with supercritical fluids
6. Supercritical fluid chromatography
7. Combination of supercritical technology with chromatographic methods
8. Biological activity of products obtained from supercritical technology
9. Biomedical application of supercritical fluid technology.
10. Transesterification assisted with supercritical fluids
11. Sub- Supercritical Gasification
12. Supercritical Water Oxidation
13. Hydrolysis assisted with sub- and supercritical fluids
14. Supercritical drying
15. Supercritical Solvent Impregnation
16. Sterilization with supercritical fluids
17. Processes integrated with supercritical fluids
18. 3D printing integrated with supercritical technology
19. High-pressure phase equilibria of pure substances and mixtures
20. Mathematical-, thermodynamic modeling, and simulation of supercritical fluid-based processes
21. Supercritical technology for the recycling of electronic waste
22. Capture and recycle of carbon dioxide for supercritical technology
23. Power generation via supercritical technology
24. Economic evaluation of supercritical technology-based processes
25. Life cycle assessment of supercritical technology-based processes
2. Pressurized Liquid Extraction
3. Encapsulation with supercritical fluids and compressed liquids
4. Concentration of molecules with supercritical fluids and compressed liquids
5. Fractionation and purification of molecules with supercritical fluids
6. Supercritical fluid chromatography
7. Combination of supercritical technology with chromatographic methods
8. Biological activity of products obtained from supercritical technology
9. Biomedical application of supercritical fluid technology.
10. Transesterification assisted with supercritical fluids
11. Sub- Supercritical Gasification
12. Supercritical Water Oxidation
13. Hydrolysis assisted with sub- and supercritical fluids
14. Supercritical drying
15. Supercritical Solvent Impregnation
16. Sterilization with supercritical fluids
17. Processes integrated with supercritical fluids
18. 3D printing integrated with supercritical technology
19. High-pressure phase equilibria of pure substances and mixtures
20. Mathematical-, thermodynamic modeling, and simulation of supercritical fluid-based processes
21. Supercritical technology for the recycling of electronic waste
22. Capture and recycle of carbon dioxide for supercritical technology
23. Power generation via supercritical technology
24. Economic evaluation of supercritical technology-based processes
25. Life cycle assessment of supercritical technology-based processes
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Ádina L. Santana
Ádina L. Santana is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Grain Science and Industry Department in Kansas State University. Dr. Santana has more than 10 years of research on the processing of value-added substances with supercritical technology via extraction, fractionation, phase equilibria, particle formation, and chemical reactions to extend the valorisation of agroindustry wastes and the end use of crops. Her research interest also includes health and technological aspects of bioactive molecules for human nutrition.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Grain Science and Industry Department, Kansas State University, USA