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Supercritical Fluids

Fundamentals for Application

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Erdogan Kiran

    1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA

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  2. Johanna M. H. Levelt Sengers

    1. Thermophysics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series E: (NSSE, volume 273)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  5. Computer Simulations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 385-385
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    2. Molecular Simulation of Near-Critical and Supercritical Fluids

      • Peter T. Cummings
      Pages 387-409
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Supercritical fluids which are neither gas nor liquid, but can be compressed gradually from low to high density, are gaining increasing importance as tunable solvents and reaction media in the chemical process industry. By adjusting the pressure, or more strictly the density, the properties of these fluids are customized and manipulated for the particular process at hand, be it a physical transformation, such as separation or solvation, or a chemical transformation, such as a reaction or reactive extraction. Supercritical fluids, however, differ from both gases and liquids in many respects. In order to properly understand and describe their properties, it is necessary to know the implications of their nearness to criticality, to be aware of the complex types of phase separation (including solid phases) that occur when the components of the fluid mixture are very different from each other, and to develop theories that can cope with the large differences in molecular size and shape of the supercritical solvent and the solutes that are present.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA

    Erdogan Kiran

  • Thermophysics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA

    Johanna M. H. Levelt Sengers

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Supercritical Fluids

  • Book Subtitle: Fundamentals for Application

  • Editors: Erdogan Kiran, Johanna M. H. Levelt Sengers

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series E:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8295-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2942-8Published: 30 June 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4427-3Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8295-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0168-132X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 796

  • Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Polymer Sciences

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