Supercritical fluid extractor

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Extraction chamber, supercritical fluid extractor, model SFX-2-10, made by ISCO, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States,1991-2000.

In the early 1990s a new research field called ‘green chemistry’ emerged, arising from growing environmental and health concerns over the use of harmful chemicals in industry and consumer products. One of the early technologies applied in this field was the extraction of nutrients from foods and plants using solvents such as pressurised carbon dioxide, replacing organic (carbon-based) solvents, such as alcohols and hydrocarbons like benzene and DDT, which release toxic pollutants.

The SFX-2-10, a supercritical fluid extractor introduced by the US laboratory technology company ISCO in 1991, was one of the earliest off-the-shelf models for performing this ‘green’ extraction technique.

This particular extraction chamber was used by Firas Jumaah and his PhD supervisor, Charlotta Turner, who leads the Green Technology Group at Lund University in Sweden. In 2018 Turner made international news, as the story of her dramatic resue mission in 2014 emerged when she hired private mercenaries to save Jumaah after he became trapped in an Islamic State warzone in Iraq.

Details

Category:
Experimental Chemistry
Object Number:
2020-176
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
type:
extraction chamber
credit:
Lund University