This technology finds application not only in analysis laboratories but also in the extraction industry sector.
It has been found that extraction of the analytes of interest is performed very rapidly, and characterised by a huge reduction of the energy required and of the solvent consumed.
This type of extraction offers high degrees of selectivity and sensitivity; in many instances, it increases the percentages of extraction obtained in comparison with conventional extraction techniques like Soxhlet and even with new techniques such as extraction by means of supercritical fluids