Carbon dioxide removal property characteristics

Structure/Property Characteristics of Polar Rubbery Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Removal... 

There is considerable interest in the chemical composition and properties of citrus oils and essences as well as the role they play in food and nonfood industries. Citrus peel oils and essences possess a pleasant aroma, with oxygenated compounds being the major constituents that account for their characteristic odor. Terpenes, the most abundant components in cold-pressed citms peel oil, are removed in concentrated oil production, usually by use of adsorbant and supercritical carbon dioxide, to increase the concentration of oxygenated compounds and to enhance the qualification of the oil. Meanwhile, citms seed oils are composed largely of triacylglycerols and are rich in oleic and linoleic acids. 

For safe and long-term storage, carbon dioxide must be injected more than 800 m below the Earth s surface. At that depth, the gas becomes a supercritical fluid. Such fluids have the gas-like characteristic of low viscosity and the liquidlike characteristic of high density. Supercritical behaviour exists only when temperature and pressure both reach, or exceed, their respective values at the so-called critical point . Every substance has its own critical temperature, above which the gas cannot be liquefied no matter how high the pressure. For carbon dioxide, the critical point lies at 31 °C and 7.4 MPa. Supercritical fluids have properties similar to those of liquid solvents and are employed commercially to extract soluble substances. For example, supercritical carbon dioxide is used to remove caffeine from coffee. 

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