Homogenous chemical promotion temperature effect

Supercritical CO2 at temperatures of 31-50 °C and pressures of about 10 MPa is now widely used as a nontoxic extractant of excess fats from foodstuffs and in decaffeinating coffee, but its largest scale future use is likely to be the enhancement of recovery of oil that cannot be extracted from wells by conventional techniques. Supercritical CO2 is finding increasing favor as a solvent for chemical syntheses, for example, in the radical-promoted polymerization of fluoroacrylic monomers in homogeneous solution, for which ozone layer-destroying chlorofluorocarbons had been the only effective solvents previously.210... 

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