Introduction to Supercritical Fluids

Richard Lee Smith, Jr. received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 1985. He is Professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Tohoku University, Japan since 2002 and Asia Regional Editor of The Journal of Supercritical Fluids; having also authored more than 250 scientific papers and publications related to properties, reactions, separations, and material processing with supercritical fluids. Hiroshi Inomata received his Doctor of Engineering from Tohoku University in 1986. He is former Director of the Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology and Professor at Tohoku University, Japan. He is the author of more than 250 scientific papers related to thermodynamics, phase equilibria and molecular simulation of supercritical fluids. Cor J. Peters holds affiliate Distinguished Professorships in Chemical Engineering at both Colorado School of Mines and the University of Maryland, USA. Prior to his current positions, he was chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, currently Khalifa University of Science and Technology. Simultaneously to this position, he was the Director of the Gas Research Center. In academic education, he has taught a variety of courses, e.g.: Thermodynamics, Advanced Thermodynamics, Applied Thermodynamics, Natural Gas Processing, Statistical Thermodynamics, Phase Equilibria and Physical Chemistry. His research expertise covers fields like complex phase equilibria, with main applications on natural gas and gas-condensates. Furthermore, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, hydrogen storage, gas hydrates, supercritical fluid technology, desalination and CO2-sequestration belong to his scientific interest. Dr Peters is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Part I – for Multi-disciplinary instruction 1. Chemical Vocabulary and Essentials 2. Systems, Devices and Processes 3. Chemical information and Know-How 4. Historical background and Applications Part II – for Specialized discipline instruction 5. Underlying thermodynamics and Practical expressions 6. Equations of state and Formulations for mixtures 7. Phase equilibria 8. Mass transfer 9. Heat transfer and Finite-difference methods 10. Chemical equilibria 11. Reaction Kinetics 12. Advanced topics