Subcritical water, aqueous organic solvents

With an increased interest and awareness of the impact of society and industry on the environment, there has been a significant attempt in recent years to reduce or replace the usage of organic solvents. Much early work in this area concentrated on the application of supercritical and subcritical carbon dioxide, but in recent years superheated (or subcritical/pressurized hot) water (SHW) has become of interest for both chromatography and extraction [43,54], The earliest work was reported by GuUlemin et al. [55], who used the term thermal aqueous liquid chromatography. As well as using SHW for the separation of... 

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