Imaging the supersaturation in high-pressure systems for particle generation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 896-902

  Dowy, Stefan ^a   Torino, Enza ^a,b   Luther, Sebastian Klaus ^a   Rossmann, Matthias ^a   Braeuer, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elastic light scattering; High pressure; Particle nucleation; Particle precipitation; SAS; Supercritical antisolvent process; Supersaturation

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC LIGHT SCATTERING; HIGH-PRESSURE; PARTICLE NUCLEATION; PARTICLE PRECIPITATION; SAS; SUPERCRITICAL ANTISOLVENT PROCESS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REFRACTION; SCATTERING; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; TERNARY SYSTEMS; YTTRIUM;

SUPERSATURATION;

INSECTIVORA;

EID: 79953298949     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.11.088     Document Type: Article

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