Supercritical Fluids in Green Technologies

Supercritical fluid technologies offer the possibility to obtain new products with special characteristics or to design new processes, which are environmentally friendly and sustainable. By using supercritical fluids as the processing media, one can also avoid the problem of solvent residues and restrictions on the use of conventional organic solvents in industrial technologies. In this overview some novel applications of supercritical fluids are presented and the future expected development in the field of high pressure green technologies is outlined.