6. Pollution control and recycling applications
Organic pollutants can also be removed from aqueous media or contaminated soils, particularly organochlorines (pesticides, PCBs) which exhibit good solubility in supercritical CO 2 . The use of mobile units to treat PCB-polluted soil on site has been proposed. Other work has focused on the extraction of mineral compounds using ligands solubilized in CO 2 (heavy metals, radioactive waste).
On the other hand, supercritical water is a medium that enables highly toxic waste to be incinerated with total efficiency, such as chemical weapons, radioactive organic waste, certain persistent compounds that are refractory to incineration, etc. Several demonstration units are in operation. In the pharmaceutical industry, several companies also use subcritical water oxidation to decontaminate...
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Thousands of articles, patents and symposium proceedings ( http://www.isasf.net ), dozens of books make up a considerable bibliography. See The Journal of Supercritical Fluids (Elsevier). Here are a few reference works and bibliographical reviews:
Regulations
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC,...
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