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Almost all fluids can undergo supercritical drying as a physical chemistry process, but the harsh conditions involved will often make it impractical as part of an industrial process. Fluids which do see industrial application of supercritical drying include
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is unavailable. The liquid carbon dioxide is then heated until its temperature goes beyond the critical point, at which time the pressure can be gradually released, allowing the gas to escape and leaving a dried product.
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is inconvenient due to possible heat damage to a sample at its critical point temperature (647 K, 374 °C) and corrosiveness of water at such high temperatures and pressures (22.064 MPa, 3,212 psi).
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To avoid this, the sample can be brought via two possible alternate paths from the liquid phase to the gas phase without crossing the liquid–gas boundary on the phase diagram. In
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region, where the distinction between gas and liquid ceases to apply. Densities of the liquid phase and vapor phase become equal at critical point of drying.
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of the working fluid in order to avoid the direct liquid–gas transition seen in ordinary drying (green arrow) or the two phase changes in
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of these two fluids. The acetone is then washed away with high pressure liquid carbon dioxide, the industry standard now that
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in the liquid body pulls against any solid structures the liquid might be in contact with. Delicate structures such as
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at a finite rate, while the amount of liquid decreases. When this happens within a heterogeneous environment,
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in a precise and controlled way. It is useful in the production of
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Modern Drying Technology, Volume 3: Product Quality and Formulation
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has similar physical behavior to carbon dioxide, but is a powerful
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is first used to wash away all water, exploiting the complete
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of coffee and in the preparation of biological specimens.
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Evangelos Tsotsas; Arun S. Mujumdar (29 August 2011).
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Scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis
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In a typical phase diagram, the boundary between gas and liquid runs from the triple point to the critical point.
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