supercritical-fluid extraction

chemistry

Also known as: SFE

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In separation and purification: Supercritical-fluid methods
Supercritical-fluid extraction (SFE) is an important method for large-scale purification of complex liquid or solid matrices, such as polluted streams. The major advantage of this method over liquid-liquid extraction is that the supercritical fluid can easily be removed after extraction by lowering the temperature or…
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In chromatography: Subsequent developments
…were the first to report separation of the porphyrins with dense gases in 1962. Carbon dioxide at 400 atmospheres is a typical supercritical-fluid mobile phase. (One atmosphere equals 760 millimetres, or 29.92 inches, of mercury; standard sea-level pressure is one atmosphere.) In an extreme case, Giddings and his group used…
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