5th INTERNATIONAL THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE

The "5th International Theoretical and Practical Conference; Supercritical Fluids: Fundamentals, Technologies, Innovations" will be held in SUZDAL (Russia) from September 15th to 18th 2009.
The scope of the congress includes thermodynamics and phase equilibria, transfer phenomena in SCF systems; extraction and fractionation; chemical synthesis and reactions of SC reactants and in SC media; modification and dispersion of natural and synthetic materials; SCF chromatography and analytical applications of SCF; experimentation in SCF systems; economical aspects of SCF technologies.

You can get the 1st circular and visit their web.

Chair : LUNIN V.V, President of CSCFT, MSU (Moscow)
Contact : scftec@isc-ras.ru
Early registration: Before 1 April, 2009

AFTS

The Spanish "Association for the promotion of Supercritical State Technologies" AFTS (from the Spanish "Asociación para el Fomento de las Tecnologías del estado Supercritico") has been set up by the approval of the statutes and the election of the first board in Valencia.

This organizations aims to enhance the relationship between their partners and to promote the collaboration for the use of Supercritical Fluid Technologies in the obtaining of more secure, sustainable and with better quality products.

At the same time the association wants to increase the knowledge of the society about supercritical fluids technologies, their advantages and the enhanced quality of its products.


You can read here the new in Spanish.

CO2 + H2O -> fuel + O2 UPDATE

In an older post, one year ago, I found a new about "the best way to avoid Climate Change":
convert the CO2 in fuel...
the problem was the source of energy...
and the solution was ¿nuclear energy?

Well, this blog is to talk about supercritical fluids, and some researches are being done that connect both subjects.

Photocatalytic preferential reduction of CO2 to methane can be performed by means of photoactalytic systems. The way of catalyst are made produces important differences and their synthesis in supercritical fluid can give interesting properties.

Some previous related works...
"Effect of Synthesis Conditions on Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Powders Synthesized in Supercritical CO2"The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 23 January 2009E. Alonso, I. Montequi, M.J. Cocero.
"Effect of TiO2 particle size on the photocatalytic reduction of CO2" Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 January 2009K. Kočí, L. Obalová, L. Matějová, D. Plachá, J. Jirkovský, O. Šolcová
"Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 using TiO2 powders in supercritical fluid CO2" Energy, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 21-30Satoshi Kaneco, Hidekazu Kurimoto, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Kiyohisa Ohta, Takayuki Mizuno

9th SYMPOSIUM INTERNATIONAL ON SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS

The symposium will take place in Arcachon (France) from the 18th-20th May 2009.

The slogan is "New trends in Supercritical Fluids: Energy, Materials, Processing"

The goal of this edition is to bring together scientists and engineers interested in Supercritical Fluids from traditional and emergent areas. The symposium will focus on new perspectives to identify new challenges and breakthroughs in the field.

Early registration is to be done before 31/01/2009.

For more information visit the symposium web page.