Advances in Sub-/Supercritical Water Processes
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 14347
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Interests: Sub- and supercritical water processes; green technologies; bioactivity; chemical characterization; development of functional products; quality control; instrumental analysis
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Interests: (bio)sensors; application of functional nanostructured materials; green technologies; new methodologies for (electro)analysis; environmental chemistry; monitoring/biomonitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The modern industrial and scientific community strives to reiterate conventional approaches and to focus on advanced, more environmentally friendly, economical, safer and sustainable alternative technologies, implementing them into practice. Subcritical water extraction has emerged as a competitive technique for the isolation of phytochemicals, natural added-value and bioactive compounds, offering numerous advantages in comparison to other “green” techniques, such as superior efficiency, excellent selectivity with the possibility to finely tune solvating properties and target specific chemical classes, as well as safety, environmentally-friendly characteristics and a low price.
This Special Issue will be dedicated to different applications of hot compressed water in its sub- and supercritical state. Hot compressed water exhibits remarkably distinct properties in its sub- and supercritical state, thus, the use of this green solvent can be seen in both extraction and decomposition processes. The aim of this Special Issue is to cover both approaches. This Special Issue is therefore welcoming original research and review articles covering the following topics:
- Subcritical water extraction of phytochemicals;
- Extraction by subcritical water of non-plant matrices;
- Decomposition in sub- and supercritical water;
- Biowaste valorization by sub- and supercritical water;
- Remediation of contaminated sites by sub- and supercritical water;
- Biofuel production by supercritical water.
In the hope that this Special Issue will provide valuable insights into the possibilities of this powerful technology, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Jaroslava Švarc-Gajić
Prof. Dr. Simone Morais
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- subcritical water extraction
- supercritical water
- decomposition in sub- and supercritical water
- biowaste valorization
- remediation
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