Supercritical Fluids

Critical behavior of fluids: Concepts and applications.- The classical theory of critical points.- Understanding phase diagrams.- Physico-chemical properties and phase equilibria of pure fluids and fluid mixtures at high pressures.- Multiphase equilibria in near-critical solvents.- Equations of state for phase equilibrium computations.- Mixing rules for the estimation of vapor-liquid equilibrium of highly non-ideal mixtures using cubic equations of state.- Thermodynamics and fluctuation solution theory with some applications to systems at near- or supercritical conditions.- Effects of critical fluctuations on the thermodynamic and transport properties of supercritical fluids.- On correlating the transport properties of supercritical fluids.- to integral equation approximations with application to near-critical and supercritical fluids.- On the non-solution region of the hypernetted chain and related equations for ionic and simple fluids.- Critical behavior in modern liquid state theories.- Integral equations for the microstructures of supercritical fluids.- Molecular simulation of near-critical and supercritical fluids.- Molecular simulation of phase equilibria.- Solute — solute interactions: Theory and simulations.- Reactions in supercritical fluids.- Kinetics and selectivity of chemical processes in fluid phases.- Absorption spectroscopy in fluid phases.- Spectroscopy and chemistry in supercritical fluids.- Polymer formation, modifications and processing in or with supercritical fluids.- Optimizing properties of polymer systems.- Copolymer solution behavior in supercritical fluids.- Density-tuned phase behavior of polyolefin solutions in supercritical olefins: Toward macromolecular separations.- Current challenges in thermodynamics of supercritical fluidchromatography.- Effect of phase behavior on supercritical fluid chromatographic and extraction performance.- Scale-up of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC).- Fundamentals of solids extraction by supercritical fluids.- Extraction and destruction of waste with supercritical water.- Predicting oxide solubilities in supercritical water.- Supercritical fluids as particle formation media.- Interfacial tension in binary systems containing a dense gas.- Applications of fluid mixtures and supercritical solvents: A survey.- Future Directions — A summary of the final discussions.