Selection for commercial SCF food

Criteria for selection of equipment and components for commercial supercritical fluid processing plants for the food processing industry are listed and discussed. Unique features and designs for SCF food processing are specified. Requirements for vessels, heat exchangers, instrumentation, piping, fluid transport devices and typical ancillary equipment are reviewed. 

The use of SCB as media for diemical reactions has increased during the past few years, as discussed in the next sectioiL The large partial molar volumes of solutes near the critical point result in unusualty large volumes of activation and large variations of certain reaction rate constants and selectivities with pressure. The following section on rate processes desolbes relatively novel crystallization processes that have commercial promise and transport properties in SCFs. The last two sections disr a variety of food, pharmaceutical, and environmental applications and provide an in-depth treatment of the design of commercial plants. 

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