Careful processing of four representative metal-organic framework (MOF) materials with liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide (ScD) leads to substantial, or in some cases spectacular (up to 1200%), increases in gas-accessible surface area. Maximization of surface area is key to the optimization of MOFs for many potential applications. Preliminary evidence points to inhibition of mesopore colla...

Hydrogen is an important chemical in many industries and it is expected to become one of the major fuels for energy generation in the future. Unfortunately, hydrogen does not exist in its elemental form in nature and therefore has to be produced from hydrocarbons, hydrogen-containing compounds or water. Above its critical point (374.8C and 22.1MPa), water has lower density and viscosity, and a ...

The analysis and characterization of lipids andwaxes is of great importance in the food industry, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry, in surfactant and detergent technology and in natural product research. Lipid analysts have always been on the forefront of developments in separation sciences and new techniques in chromatography have often been developed for the separation of lipids. The Rrst...

There are many difficulties in the purification of raw components and products. However, researchers are seeking better ways for purification. One of the recent methods is extraction using supercritical fluids. In this study, the phase equilibria of benzoic acid -supercritical carbon dioxide system were investigated. Regarding the phase equilibria of this system, the modeling of solid-supercrit...

this article introduces a new tri-parameter law of corresponding states from the known regularities, namely the lir and zeno line for dense fluids (when tz=tc). two of these parameters are the zeno line parameters and the third parameter (the fluid parameter), has been obtained from the lir, this parameter is solely dependent upon the fluid characteristics. the third parameter can be obtaind fr...

supercritical carbon dioxide has gained increasing attention in food and pharmaceutical processing owing to the fact that it is environmentally inexpensive, not flammable, essentially non-toxic, and it has a convenient critical point. also, it has been attracting much attention in many fields, such as extraction of sensitive materials and pharmaceutical processing and polymerization processes. ...

We show quenched large deviations for the simple random walk on percolation models with long-range correlations defined by Drewitz, Ráth and Sapozhnikov [3], which contain supercritical Bernoulli percolations, random interlacements, the vacant set of random interlacements and the level set of the Gaussian free field. Our result is an extension of Kubota’s result [8] for supercritical Bernoulli ...

Numerical studies have been carried out to investigate supercritical flow instabilities in a CO2 natural circulation loop. For the steady state and dynamic analyses of the loop under supercritical conditions, a single-channel, one-dimensional model is developed. In this model, equations for the conservation of mass, momentum and energy are discretized using an implicit finite difference scheme....

With the exhaustion of fossil fuels and the severe pollution of the environment, it’s urgent to find substitute renewable energy resources. Biomass is a kind of widespread and abundant renewable resource with lower sulfur content than fossil fuels, so the pollution to environment from biomass usage is much slighter than that from fossil fuels usage. Besides, zero emission of CO2 can be realized...

INTRODUCTION A sol-gel preparation involves f m t the formation of a sol, which is a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, then of a gel, which is a diphasic material with a solid encapsulating a liquid. The liquid can be removed from a gel by either conventional drying (such as by using an oven) to obtain a plojiict kLown as e xercgel, or hy drying with supercritical extraction (often ref...