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The frequency response of microcantilevers (MCs) in supercritical CO 2 (scCO 2 ) is investigated.... more The frequency response of microcantilevers (MCs) in supercritical CO 2 (scCO 2 ) is investigated. Nickel MCs that were 120 µm and 180 µm long, 12 µm wide and 2.5 µm thick were prepared by microfabrication techniques. The MCs and an electromagnetic actuator consisting of a copper wire wrapped around a coil were subsequently placed in a custom made Teflon housing which could fit snuggly into a 50 ml pressure vessel equipped with sapphire windows. The resonance spectra under electromagnetic actuation in scCO 2 was measured using a Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) in the pressure range of 1200-2000 psig with 100 psig intervals and at a temperature of 33.6 °C. The resonance frequencies were found to vary linearly both with density and viscosity, thus with kinematic viscosity. However, the relationship between the quality factors and kinematic viscosity was found to depict a highly nonlinear character. Added mass analysis was performed using the first order Taylor series expansion of the resonance frequency expression written as a function of added mass caused by pressure load for a case where viscous drag is neglected. It was seen that the mass resolution of both MCs is almost on the order of nanograms. The extrapolation of resonance frequency versus density, resonance frequency versus viscosity (dynamic) and resonance frequency versus kinematic viscosity lines enabled the calculation of vacuum frequency of the MCs with an average percentage error of 1.7 %, 10.1 % and 4.6 %, respectively. In addition, a linear relationship between the damping coefficient and the square root of viscosity was observed with an R 2 value of 0.9645 only for 180 µm long cantilevers which enabled us to calculate viscosity of scCO 2 with a percentage error less than 5 %. This result could also be combined with the linear behavior of resonance frequency versus kinematic viscosity curves to calculate density of scCO 2 with a percentage error less than 3 %. 2
Environmental Science and Technology, Jun 1, 1993
The adsorption isotherms for naphthalene, phenanthrene, hexachlorobenzene, and pentachlorophenol ... more The adsorption isotherms for naphthalene, phenanthrene, hexachlorobenzene, and pentachlorophenol on soil were determined in the presence of liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide. The adsorption isotherms for naphthalene, phenanthrene, and hexachlorobenzene are linear, whereas for pentachlorophenol, a slight deviation from linearity was observed. The heats of adsorption of naphthalene, phenanthrene, hexachlorobenzene, and pentachlorophenol on soil at 308 K were found to be in the ...
ABSTRACT As part of the NANOINSULATE Project being funded by the EU Program EeB.NMP.2010-1 New na... more ABSTRACT As part of the NANOINSULATE Project being funded by the EU Program EeB.NMP.2010-1 New nanotechnology-based high performance insulation systems for energy efficiency, nanostructured composites of silica aerogels with polymers are being developed as core materials for vacuum insulation panels in buildings. Monolithic composites of a wide variety of polymers with silica aerogels were synthesized by modification of the conventional sol-gel method to produce silica aerogels. Characterization of the composite materials was performed by Fourier Transform Infrared - Attenuated Total Reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and by nitrogen physisorption using BET. Both transparent and opaque crack-free monolithic composites suitable for testing and uses in VIPs were obtained. Polymer presence in the composites was confirmed by IR spectroscopy and TGA. The composites were mesoporous materials with high surface areas around 800 m2/g and average pore sizes around 5 nm. Incorporation of polymers did not significantly change the pore size distribution and the specific surface area of the pure silica aerogels. The effects of the time of polymer addition at various stages of the conventional sol-gel process such as before/after the hydrolysis step and during the aging step, on the properties of the composites were investigated. Opacity was found to be due the phase separation of the polymer from the reaction mixture. The effect of polymer content on the resulting properties and on the supercritical drying time was also investigated.
Organometallics, 2000
... Daniel R. Palo and Can Erkey*. Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Chemical Engi... more ... Daniel R. Palo and Can Erkey*. Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269. ... Lovatt, JD; McArdle, P.; Cunningham, D.; Maimone, E.; Gottlieb, HE; Goldschmidt, Z. Inorg. ...
Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, Mar 8, 2002
ABSTRACT
Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 1999
... Solvophobic Acceleration of Diels−Alder Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Jin Qian, ... more ... Solvophobic Acceleration of Diels−Alder Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Jin Qian, Michael T. Timko, Andrew J. Allen, Christopher J. Russell, Bozena Winnik, Brian Buckley, Jeffrey I. Steinfeld, and Jefferson W. Tester. ...
Ind Eng Chem Res, 1997
Copper removal from aqueous solutions by chelation in supercritical carbon dioxide was investigat... more Copper removal from aqueous solutions by chelation in supercritical carbon dioxide was investigated. The chelating agents were 1,1,1-trifluoroacetylacetone (TFA) and 2,2-dimethyl- 6,6,7,7,8,8,. Extraction efficiencies were determined for a single equilibrium stage in the temperature range 308-328 K and the pressure range 9.9-24.0 MPa and ranged from 4% to 84%. The extraction efficiencies increased with increasing the initial amount of chelating agent and with decreasing the initial copper concentration. No significant changes in extraction efficiencies were observed with temperature and pressure at a fixed initial amount of chelating agent. A thermodynamic model based on combined reaction and phase equilibria was also developed for prediction of extraction efficiencies.
ABSTRACT A novel composite of silica aerogel-poly(ethylene glycol) PEG hydrogel was synthesized a... more ABSTRACT A novel composite of silica aerogel-poly(ethylene glycol) PEG hydrogel was synthesized and its potential as a drug delivery system were investigated. The composite was synthesized by encapsulation of hydrophobic aerogels within PEG hydrogel via photoinitiated polymerization. Disks of aerogels were synthesized by the two step sol-gel method using tetraethylortosilicate (TEOS) as the silica precursor. After aging in ethanol, the alcogels were loaded with eosin-Y photoinitiator. The surface of eosin functionalized silica aerogels was then rendered hydrophobic using hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) as the surface modification agent, and supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO2) as the solvent. Hydrophobicity of aerogel was tuned by changing HMDS amount dissolved in ScCO2 phase which resulted in the change of the contact angle between 0 and 128o. Hydrophobic or hydrophilic aerogels were then dipped into a PEG diacrylate prepolymer solution, and photopolymerization was carried out using visible light (514 nm). BET surface area and pore size distribution measurements showed that both hydrogel encapsulation and eosin-Y loading did not affect the pore structure of the aerogel. The potential of this composite as a drug delivery system was tested by Ketoprofen as a model drug. The results demonstrate that both drug loading capacity and drug release profiles could be tuned by changing the hydrophobicity of aerogels, and that drug loading capacity increases with decreased aerogel hydrophobicity while slower release rates are achieved with increased hydrophobicity from eosin functionalized aerogels. The effect of PEG concentration (0, 15 %, and 30 % w/w) in the prepolymer solution of the hydrogel coating on drug release rate from hydrophilic aerogel was also investigated. It was seen that as the PEG concentration increased, the drug release was retarded. The experimental results showed that drug release can be controlled with this novel aerogel-hydrogel composite system via changing hydrophobicity of the aerogel, and the concentration of the PEG in the hydrogel coating.
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 1994
We have utilized the Taylor dispersion technique to measure the infinite dilution mutual diffusio... more We have utilized the Taylor dispersion technique to measure the infinite dilution mutual diffusion coefficients of 1-octene and 1-tetradecene in subcritical and supercritical ethane and in subcritical propane in the temperature range 293.15-338.15 K and the pressure ...
Aiche Journal, Mar 1, 1989
Mutual diffusion coefficients in liquids over an extended temperature and pressure range are need... more Mutual diffusion coefficients in liquids over an extended temperature and pressure range are needed to predict mass-transfer rates. Furthermore, a detailed study of mutual diffusion in liquids is important for our understanding of molecular motions and interactions in such systems. The interpretation of mutual diffusion measurements in dense fluids is based on a model developed by for self-diffusion and viscosity coefficients. The mutual diffusion coefficient is given by the expression :
ABSTRACT Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) with typical thermal conductivity values of 3 to 5 mW/mK... more ABSTRACT Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) with typical thermal conductivity values of 3 to 5 mW/mK are emerging as excellent systems nowadays for effective thermal insulation in buildings and household applications. The achievement of such low thermal conductivities in VIPs relies on the suppression of the gaseous convection by applying vacuum. A VIP structure is composed of a core insulation material and an envelope film covering the core material. Among different materials, fumed silica and glass fiber are the most commonly utilized core materials owing to their appreciably low thermal conductivity values, especially under vacuum conditions. However, these materials are not transparent and thus cannot be used in the development of transparent vacuum insulation panels. The idea of transparent VIPs has been recently established in order to replace the conventional window glazing. Since then, research about transparent core materials and barrier films that can be utilized in the development of transparent vacuum insulation panels has been gaining increasing interest. Silica aerogels appear as the most promising nanostructured materials to be implemented as filler materials in transparent vacuum insulation panels due to their transparency in addition to extremely low thermal conductivity. One drawback of silica aerogels is their poor mechanical properties which makes their utilization as monolithic and crack-free materials challenging. This problem can be solved by reinforcing aerogels with polymers which results in improved resilience that would allow for practical utilization. In this study, monolithic composites of silica aerogels with hydroxyl-terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS(OH)) were developed using a reactive supercritical deposition technique. The technique is composed of two stages; the first stage includes the dissolution of PDMS(OH) in supercritical CO2 that results in a single phase binary mixture of PDMS(OH)-CO2 and the second stage is the exposure of the silica aerogel samples to the single phase binary mixture. Initially, the demixing pressures of PDMS(OH)-CO2 binary mixtures at various compositions were measured up to 24 MPa to determine the single phase region of the binary mixture. The demixing pressures were observed to decrease with increasing polymer content of the binary mixture. Subsequently, deposition experiments were performed with various PDMS(OH) concentrations and monolithic aerogel composites were obtained. The polymer uptake of the deposited aerogels increased with increasing PDMS(OH) concentration. It was found that the transparency of the aerogels can be controlled by the amount of the polymer loaded to the samples. The deposited samples were characterized by ATR-FTIR and BET analysis. It was revealed that during the course of the deposition, the polymer molecules react with the surface –OH groups of the aerogel. The volume of the polymer in the composites was correlated with the decrease in the pore volume from the BET results. It was demonstrated that the deposition resulted in the coating of silica aerogel surface with a thin layer (~1-2 nm) of polymer molecules. This study was carried out within the scope of NanoInsulate project which is aimed to develop durable, robust, cost-effective opaque and transparent vacuum insulation panels incorporating new nanotechnology-based core materials (such as aerogels and aerogel composites) and high-barrier films, that are up to six times more energy efficient than current solutions. The NanoInsulate project is supported by funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007 – 2013).
J Chem Eng Data, 1998
The solubility of dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(II) in supercritical carbon dioxide was d... more The solubility of dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(II) in supercritical carbon dioxide was determined using a dynamic method. Solubility isotherms were obtained at (308, 318, and 328) K in the pressure range (10.8 to 27.9) MPa. Solubilities increased linearly with increasing density at constant temperature and increased with increasing temperature at constant density.
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2015
ACS Symposium Series, 2003
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2015
ABSTRACT Novel monolithic and crack-free poly(methyl vinyl ether) (PMVE)-silica aerogel composite... more ABSTRACT Novel monolithic and crack-free poly(methyl vinyl ether) (PMVE)-silica aerogel composites were synthesized using a modified sol-gel procedure. The presence of PMVE in solid network of the composite samples was confirmed by a variety of techniques including IR spectroscopy, TGA and BET. Extraction of ethanol from alcogel composite rods using scCO2 was investigated both by experiments and simulations. Partial differential equations representing mass transfer within the composite alcogel phase and in the flowing scCO2 phase were developed and solved using finite difference method. Mass of ethanol removed from the samples as a function of time were found to be in good agreement with model results using mass transfer coefficients regressed from the experimental data. Effect of the polymer content on the drying could be estimated by taking into account of porosity change with polymer incorporation. Drying time of the alcogel increased with increasing polymer fraction in the silica network and gel thickness.
The frequency response of microcantilevers (MCs) in supercritical CO 2 (scCO 2 ) is investigated.... more The frequency response of microcantilevers (MCs) in supercritical CO 2 (scCO 2 ) is investigated. Nickel MCs that were 120 µm and 180 µm long, 12 µm wide and 2.5 µm thick were prepared by microfabrication techniques. The MCs and an electromagnetic actuator consisting of a copper wire wrapped around a coil were subsequently placed in a custom made Teflon housing which could fit snuggly into a 50 ml pressure vessel equipped with sapphire windows. The resonance spectra under electromagnetic actuation in scCO 2 was measured using a Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) in the pressure range of 1200-2000 psig with 100 psig intervals and at a temperature of 33.6 °C. The resonance frequencies were found to vary linearly both with density and viscosity, thus with kinematic viscosity. However, the relationship between the quality factors and kinematic viscosity was found to depict a highly nonlinear character. Added mass analysis was performed using the first order Taylor series expansion of the resonance frequency expression written as a function of added mass caused by pressure load for a case where viscous drag is neglected. It was seen that the mass resolution of both MCs is almost on the order of nanograms. The extrapolation of resonance frequency versus density, resonance frequency versus viscosity (dynamic) and resonance frequency versus kinematic viscosity lines enabled the calculation of vacuum frequency of the MCs with an average percentage error of 1.7 %, 10.1 % and 4.6 %, respectively. In addition, a linear relationship between the damping coefficient and the square root of viscosity was observed with an R 2 value of 0.9645 only for 180 µm long cantilevers which enabled us to calculate viscosity of scCO 2 with a percentage error less than 5 %. This result could also be combined with the linear behavior of resonance frequency versus kinematic viscosity curves to calculate density of scCO 2 with a percentage error less than 3 %. 2
Environmental Science and Technology, Jun 1, 1993
The adsorption isotherms for naphthalene, phenanthrene, hexachlorobenzene, and pentachlorophenol ... more The adsorption isotherms for naphthalene, phenanthrene, hexachlorobenzene, and pentachlorophenol on soil were determined in the presence of liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide. The adsorption isotherms for naphthalene, phenanthrene, and hexachlorobenzene are linear, whereas for pentachlorophenol, a slight deviation from linearity was observed. The heats of adsorption of naphthalene, phenanthrene, hexachlorobenzene, and pentachlorophenol on soil at 308 K were found to be in the ...
ABSTRACT As part of the NANOINSULATE Project being funded by the EU Program EeB.NMP.2010-1 New na... more ABSTRACT As part of the NANOINSULATE Project being funded by the EU Program EeB.NMP.2010-1 New nanotechnology-based high performance insulation systems for energy efficiency, nanostructured composites of silica aerogels with polymers are being developed as core materials for vacuum insulation panels in buildings. Monolithic composites of a wide variety of polymers with silica aerogels were synthesized by modification of the conventional sol-gel method to produce silica aerogels. Characterization of the composite materials was performed by Fourier Transform Infrared - Attenuated Total Reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and by nitrogen physisorption using BET. Both transparent and opaque crack-free monolithic composites suitable for testing and uses in VIPs were obtained. Polymer presence in the composites was confirmed by IR spectroscopy and TGA. The composites were mesoporous materials with high surface areas around 800 m2/g and average pore sizes around 5 nm. Incorporation of polymers did not significantly change the pore size distribution and the specific surface area of the pure silica aerogels. The effects of the time of polymer addition at various stages of the conventional sol-gel process such as before/after the hydrolysis step and during the aging step, on the properties of the composites were investigated. Opacity was found to be due the phase separation of the polymer from the reaction mixture. The effect of polymer content on the resulting properties and on the supercritical drying time was also investigated.
Organometallics, 2000
... Daniel R. Palo and Can Erkey*. Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Chemical Engi... more ... Daniel R. Palo and Can Erkey*. Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269. ... Lovatt, JD; McArdle, P.; Cunningham, D.; Maimone, E.; Gottlieb, HE; Goldschmidt, Z. Inorg. ...
Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, Mar 8, 2002
ABSTRACT
Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 1999
... Solvophobic Acceleration of Diels−Alder Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Jin Qian, ... more ... Solvophobic Acceleration of Diels−Alder Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Jin Qian, Michael T. Timko, Andrew J. Allen, Christopher J. Russell, Bozena Winnik, Brian Buckley, Jeffrey I. Steinfeld, and Jefferson W. Tester. ...
Ind Eng Chem Res, 1997
Copper removal from aqueous solutions by chelation in supercritical carbon dioxide was investigat... more Copper removal from aqueous solutions by chelation in supercritical carbon dioxide was investigated. The chelating agents were 1,1,1-trifluoroacetylacetone (TFA) and 2,2-dimethyl- 6,6,7,7,8,8,. Extraction efficiencies were determined for a single equilibrium stage in the temperature range 308-328 K and the pressure range 9.9-24.0 MPa and ranged from 4% to 84%. The extraction efficiencies increased with increasing the initial amount of chelating agent and with decreasing the initial copper concentration. No significant changes in extraction efficiencies were observed with temperature and pressure at a fixed initial amount of chelating agent. A thermodynamic model based on combined reaction and phase equilibria was also developed for prediction of extraction efficiencies.
ABSTRACT A novel composite of silica aerogel-poly(ethylene glycol) PEG hydrogel was synthesized a... more ABSTRACT A novel composite of silica aerogel-poly(ethylene glycol) PEG hydrogel was synthesized and its potential as a drug delivery system were investigated. The composite was synthesized by encapsulation of hydrophobic aerogels within PEG hydrogel via photoinitiated polymerization. Disks of aerogels were synthesized by the two step sol-gel method using tetraethylortosilicate (TEOS) as the silica precursor. After aging in ethanol, the alcogels were loaded with eosin-Y photoinitiator. The surface of eosin functionalized silica aerogels was then rendered hydrophobic using hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) as the surface modification agent, and supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO2) as the solvent. Hydrophobicity of aerogel was tuned by changing HMDS amount dissolved in ScCO2 phase which resulted in the change of the contact angle between 0 and 128o. Hydrophobic or hydrophilic aerogels were then dipped into a PEG diacrylate prepolymer solution, and photopolymerization was carried out using visible light (514 nm). BET surface area and pore size distribution measurements showed that both hydrogel encapsulation and eosin-Y loading did not affect the pore structure of the aerogel. The potential of this composite as a drug delivery system was tested by Ketoprofen as a model drug. The results demonstrate that both drug loading capacity and drug release profiles could be tuned by changing the hydrophobicity of aerogels, and that drug loading capacity increases with decreased aerogel hydrophobicity while slower release rates are achieved with increased hydrophobicity from eosin functionalized aerogels. The effect of PEG concentration (0, 15 %, and 30 % w/w) in the prepolymer solution of the hydrogel coating on drug release rate from hydrophilic aerogel was also investigated. It was seen that as the PEG concentration increased, the drug release was retarded. The experimental results showed that drug release can be controlled with this novel aerogel-hydrogel composite system via changing hydrophobicity of the aerogel, and the concentration of the PEG in the hydrogel coating.
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 1994
We have utilized the Taylor dispersion technique to measure the infinite dilution mutual diffusio... more We have utilized the Taylor dispersion technique to measure the infinite dilution mutual diffusion coefficients of 1-octene and 1-tetradecene in subcritical and supercritical ethane and in subcritical propane in the temperature range 293.15-338.15 K and the pressure ...
Aiche Journal, Mar 1, 1989
Mutual diffusion coefficients in liquids over an extended temperature and pressure range are need... more Mutual diffusion coefficients in liquids over an extended temperature and pressure range are needed to predict mass-transfer rates. Furthermore, a detailed study of mutual diffusion in liquids is important for our understanding of molecular motions and interactions in such systems. The interpretation of mutual diffusion measurements in dense fluids is based on a model developed by for self-diffusion and viscosity coefficients. The mutual diffusion coefficient is given by the expression :
ABSTRACT Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) with typical thermal conductivity values of 3 to 5 mW/mK... more ABSTRACT Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) with typical thermal conductivity values of 3 to 5 mW/mK are emerging as excellent systems nowadays for effective thermal insulation in buildings and household applications. The achievement of such low thermal conductivities in VIPs relies on the suppression of the gaseous convection by applying vacuum. A VIP structure is composed of a core insulation material and an envelope film covering the core material. Among different materials, fumed silica and glass fiber are the most commonly utilized core materials owing to their appreciably low thermal conductivity values, especially under vacuum conditions. However, these materials are not transparent and thus cannot be used in the development of transparent vacuum insulation panels. The idea of transparent VIPs has been recently established in order to replace the conventional window glazing. Since then, research about transparent core materials and barrier films that can be utilized in the development of transparent vacuum insulation panels has been gaining increasing interest. Silica aerogels appear as the most promising nanostructured materials to be implemented as filler materials in transparent vacuum insulation panels due to their transparency in addition to extremely low thermal conductivity. One drawback of silica aerogels is their poor mechanical properties which makes their utilization as monolithic and crack-free materials challenging. This problem can be solved by reinforcing aerogels with polymers which results in improved resilience that would allow for practical utilization. In this study, monolithic composites of silica aerogels with hydroxyl-terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS(OH)) were developed using a reactive supercritical deposition technique. The technique is composed of two stages; the first stage includes the dissolution of PDMS(OH) in supercritical CO2 that results in a single phase binary mixture of PDMS(OH)-CO2 and the second stage is the exposure of the silica aerogel samples to the single phase binary mixture. Initially, the demixing pressures of PDMS(OH)-CO2 binary mixtures at various compositions were measured up to 24 MPa to determine the single phase region of the binary mixture. The demixing pressures were observed to decrease with increasing polymer content of the binary mixture. Subsequently, deposition experiments were performed with various PDMS(OH) concentrations and monolithic aerogel composites were obtained. The polymer uptake of the deposited aerogels increased with increasing PDMS(OH) concentration. It was found that the transparency of the aerogels can be controlled by the amount of the polymer loaded to the samples. The deposited samples were characterized by ATR-FTIR and BET analysis. It was revealed that during the course of the deposition, the polymer molecules react with the surface –OH groups of the aerogel. The volume of the polymer in the composites was correlated with the decrease in the pore volume from the BET results. It was demonstrated that the deposition resulted in the coating of silica aerogel surface with a thin layer (~1-2 nm) of polymer molecules. This study was carried out within the scope of NanoInsulate project which is aimed to develop durable, robust, cost-effective opaque and transparent vacuum insulation panels incorporating new nanotechnology-based core materials (such as aerogels and aerogel composites) and high-barrier films, that are up to six times more energy efficient than current solutions. The NanoInsulate project is supported by funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007 – 2013).
J Chem Eng Data, 1998
The solubility of dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(II) in supercritical carbon dioxide was d... more The solubility of dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(II) in supercritical carbon dioxide was determined using a dynamic method. Solubility isotherms were obtained at (308, 318, and 328) K in the pressure range (10.8 to 27.9) MPa. Solubilities increased linearly with increasing density at constant temperature and increased with increasing temperature at constant density.
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2015
ACS Symposium Series, 2003
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2015
ABSTRACT Novel monolithic and crack-free poly(methyl vinyl ether) (PMVE)-silica aerogel composite... more ABSTRACT Novel monolithic and crack-free poly(methyl vinyl ether) (PMVE)-silica aerogel composites were synthesized using a modified sol-gel procedure. The presence of PMVE in solid network of the composite samples was confirmed by a variety of techniques including IR spectroscopy, TGA and BET. Extraction of ethanol from alcogel composite rods using scCO2 was investigated both by experiments and simulations. Partial differential equations representing mass transfer within the composite alcogel phase and in the flowing scCO2 phase were developed and solved using finite difference method. Mass of ethanol removed from the samples as a function of time were found to be in good agreement with model results using mass transfer coefficients regressed from the experimental data. Effect of the polymer content on the drying could be estimated by taking into account of porosity change with polymer incorporation. Drying time of the alcogel increased with increasing polymer fraction in the silica network and gel thickness.