Gas Extraction: An Introduction to Fundamentals of Supercritical Fluids and the Application to Separation Processes

by Gerd Brunner

Overview

Application of compressed gases as solvents has found widespread interest within the scientific community. Its processes have industrial applications.

Gas Extraction deals with the possibilities of supercritical gases as solvents for separation processes. The volume combines physico-chemical aspects with chemical engineering methods. The text generalizes as far as possible, and treats examples in detail.

Gas Extraction covers, for the first time, the subject in textbook form. Most of the examples provide new results that will be helpful for practicing scientists, engineers, and students who want to make use of the techniques.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662073827
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	04/10/2013
Series:	Topics in Physical Chemistry , #4
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Pages:	387
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Properties of Supercritical and Near-Critical Gases and of Mixtures with Sub- and Supercritical Components.- 3 Supercritical Gases as Solvents: Phase Equilibria.- 4 Heat and Mass Transfer.- 5. Solvent cycle.- 6 The Separation of Solvent and Dissolved Substances: Methods for Precipitation.- 7 Extraction of Substances with Supercritical Fluids from Solid Substrates.- 8 Countercurrent Multistage Extraction.- 9 Chromatography with Supercritical Fluids (Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, SFC).- 10 Conclusion.