Supercritical fluid extraction is widely used in natural products, foods and flavors, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, polymers, chemicals, and parts cleaning industries.
The laboratory SFE scale sytems from Thar starts from 100mL up to 10L. Models can include co-solvent pump, fractionation and recycling.
SFE, utilizing CO2 instead of solvent-based or other existing technologies, has several advantages. Advantages of supercritical fluids SFE
reduced organic solvent usage and disposal
liquid CO2 is inexpensive
reduced solvent removal time and energy
higher throughput: lower viscosity and higher mass transfer coefficient
faster equilibration, especially with chiral phases
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