Monday, 22 February 2010

PROSCIBA 2010



PROSCIBA 2010 (second iberoamerican conference on supercritical fluids) will be held in Natal (Brazil) form the 05 to the 09 April 201


I've miss the deadline for abstract submission (September 18th 2009).

For those that have to send the full parper remember that the deadline is close...
very close!
=> Final Version of full paper submission: February 22st, 2010

The registration with discount have to be done before march 5th 2010.

Friday, 12 February 2010

12th EUROPEAN MEETING ON SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS


The "12th EUROPEAN MEETING ON SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS" will be held in Graz (Austria) 9-12 May 2010

The symposium will be held over three days. The programme will include plenary lectures, key-notes, oral communications and poster sessions. The scientific programme will focus on aspects of new progresses in the field of applications of Supercritical Fluids (SCFs). It will focus in the following points:

•Properties of SCFs
•Reactivity in and with SCFs
•Material processing in SCFs
•SCFs and Energy
•New fields of SCFs applications

Sunday, 7 February 2010

2 years of supercritical stuffs...

This blog was created 2 years ago with the aim of spreading the knowledge on supercritical fluids. At the same time related subjects, such as sustainable development or green chemistry, have also been touched as these themes are close to the supercritical fluids because SFE (supercritical fluid extraction) is a "green chemistry" process.

I've tried to add something at least once a month, but news about supercritical fluids are not very common and I don't want to make this blog too much technical.
I still waiting some answer or question from readers and hope that sooner or later it would be some.

I would like to thank all the visitor from all around the world and hope to see you back again!

Google Analytics says from 07/02/2008 to 07/02/2010: 1605 visits from 675 cities from all around the world!

Monday, 4 January 2010

Supercritical solution for global warming...

An article about CO2 capture and storage has been published in Nature Geoscience recently [1]. The storage of the CO2 is said to be in supercritical state, however only the pressure is above the critical point and therefore the system is not fully supercritical but in a compressed liquid state [2].
Geological carbon storage

Mike J. Bickle

Storage of the carbon dioxide that is produced by burning fossil fuels is one way to avoid the damaging consequences of climate change. A range of observations suggests that geological carbon storage is much less risky than unabated carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
Enjoy the article!

Yours comments are welcome!

[1] Geological carbon storage
[2] Phenomenal fluids

You may also want to read:
[3] Capturing carbon
[4] Putting the carbon back: The hundred billion tonne challenge
[5] Tracing carbon dioxide's fate underground
[6] Solubility trapping in formation water as dominant CO2 sink in natural gas fields