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Stefano Cardea1, Ernesto Reverchon2
1Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy. scardea@unisa.it.
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|September 27, 2019
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The use of supercritical fluids instead of organic solvents has attracted the interest of numerous researchers, due to the unique peculiarities of supercritical fluids which are characterized by solvent powers comparable to those of liquid organic solvents, diffusivity comparable to those of gaseous substances and quasi-zero surface tension [...].
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