Number: 2002-045-1-500 (previously 581/20/89)
Title: Solubility data related to industrial processes. Solids
and liquids in supercritical carbon dioxide
Series: Solubility Data Series; editor-in-chief: Mark
Salomon
Task Group
Chairman: D.E. Knox
Objective:
Supercritical carbon dioxide is an increasingly important industrial
fluid which does not cause pollution. Data for solubilities in this
solvent will have wide applications.
Description:
Carbon dioxide itself is an important industrial solvent. This volume
will contain comprehensive compilations and evaluations of the existing
data on the solubility of solids and liquids in supercritical CO2.
Processing using supercritical fluids is an increasingly important
area worldwide. Such processes, with their significant variation in
solubility with pressure, permit the accomplishment of many processes
that would be otherwise very difficult to achieve. Further, systems
that employ carbon dioxide as the solvent are particularly attractive
as CO2 is environmentally friendly. There are many "green
chemistry" processes employing supercritical CO2 that are
of worldwide importance. One example is found in the pharmaceutical
industry, where the solutes are often thermally labile substances that
would be degraded by more conventional separation processes. There are
also well-established processes in other industries, for instance, the
decaffeination of coffee by extraction with supercritical CO2.
There are currently no generally recognized, critically evaluated data
in this area. Furthermore, many data have been published in this area
in the last decade or so. This volume is thus addressing a significant
need.
Progress:
> Nov 2004 report update (pdf
file - 11KB)
> May 2006 report update (pdf
file - 11KB)
To be published as part of the IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series. in
J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data.
> July 2007 report update (pdf
file - 6KB)
>
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Last Update: 16 October 2007
