Applications of Supercritical Fluids

This chapter concentrates on the slightly narrower topic of established and emerging industrial applications of supercritical fluids, covering applications of liquids only where they overlap with those of supercritical fluids. It covers the applications in power generation, followed by food processing and then other applications. In recent years a massive research and development effort has been initiated into the use of CO2 as the working fluid in thermodynamic cycles as an alternative to H2O. The principal application is power generation, but there are also potential applications in the marine sector. The advantages of CO2 over H2O are twofold. Two-dimensional materials have been one of the hottest topics in physical sciences research over the past two decades.