In our current study, supercritical water impregnation (SCWI) was introduced as a unique catalyst preparation method by employing the high diffusivity property of supercritical water. The method allows nano-particles to place on support surfaces in extremely dispersed conditions. The silica-based nanocatalyst granules for this purpose were prepared by initial impregnation of highly porous silic...

Solute-solute and solute-solvent clustering of N,Ndimethylaminobenzonitrile and ethyl N,N-dimethylaminobenzoate in supercritical fluoroform, supercritical carbon dioxide, and supercritical fluoroform-carbon dioxide mixtures are quantitatively evaluated from the dependence of the relative contributions of the locally excited (LE) state and the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) emissi...

The cost of carrying or resupplying life support resources for long duration manned space exploration missions such as a mission to Mars is prohibitive and requires the development of suitable recycling technologies. Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) has been identified as an attractive candidate for these extended missions because (i) pre-drying of wet waste streams is not required, (ii) pr...

Drill mud is a fluid which is used in oil extraction industries in order to cool and lubricate the drill bit. Due to containing numerous toxic components, it is considered as a hazardous waste which must be treated before discharging to the environment. Current separation techniques for drill cutting treatment can be categorized into three main categories of physical (dewatering), physiochemica...

The advantage of the application of the supercritical extraction in contrast to the conventional methods to prepare micro and nanoparticles is that the product no longer is exposed to high temperatures for a long time. Furthermore, the supercritical extraction offers the possibility to reduce the content of the residual organic solvent in the final product because of the high solubility of orga...

Supercritical fluid CO 2 is an alternative solvent for extraction of metals. The solubility parameter of supercritical CO 2 varies with density resembling that of liquid hexane at moderate pressures in the supercritical region to those of chlorinated solvents at very high pressures. By changing density of supercritical CO 2 , the solvation environment of a metal chelate system can vary continuo...

The dissolution property of the poorly water-soluble drug, flurbiprofen (FP) was improved by a novel supercritical freeze granulation using supercritical carbon dioxide. Supercritical freeze granulation was defined as a production method of the granulated substances by using the dry ice to generate intentionally for the rapid atomization of the supercritical carbon dioxide to the atmospheric pr...

A new flexible thermal insulation sheet, a composite of silica aerogel with polypropylene (PP) foam, has been developed. Even though large volume ratio (97%) was included, the showed high flexibility. Thermal conductivity 0.016 W/(m?K) at 298 K, which is as low monolith. Silica flaking, problem in practical applications, very this due to skin layers polymer-foam composite. supercritical drying ...

Supercritical fluids have received much attention for analytical and processing applications. In particular, supercritical carbon dioxide has been used to extract relatively non-polar organics from a variety of environmental matrices, and has also been used for chemical processing. While supercritical carbon dioxide is relatively unreactive and is not an efficient solvent for polar organics, su...