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high-pressure process

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high-pressure process [′hī ¦presh·ər ′prä·səs]
(chemical engineering)
A chemical process operating at elevated pressure; for example, phenol manufacture at 330 atmospheres (1 atmosphere = 101,325 pascals), ethylene polymerization at 2000 atm, ammonia synthesis at 100-1000 atm, and synthetic-diamond manufacture up to 100,000 atm.


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To predict temperature, the models would require equations that describe all heat transfer phenomena that could occur during the compression, pressure-holding and decompression phases of the high-pressure process.
In a typical high-pressure process, the food material is processed under elevated pressures up to 130,000 psi.
 
 
 
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