Larry T. Taylor | Authors

The SFC conference tackled theory, economics, scale-up, and more.

The 9th International Symposium on Packed Column SFC (SFC 2015) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on 22–24 July 2015. Selected highlights of both the oral and poster SFC 2015 programmes are reviewed in this synopsis.

A review of the 8th International Symposium on Packed Column SFC (SFC 2014), which was held in Basel, Switzerland, on 8–10 October 2014.

Past, present, and future developments of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) are outlined. New vendor activity in terms of automation and hyphenation with chromatographic separations is discussed.

A review of the 7th International Symposium on Packed Column SFC (SFC 2013), which was held in Boston, Massachusetts, from July 10 to 12, 2013.

The past and future development of analytical supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is traced in terms of experimental strategies, applications, vendor support, and timely acceptance of the existing technology.