a cleaning system that utilizes an organic cleaning solvent and pressurized fluid solvent is disclosed . the system has no conventional evaporative hot air drying cycle . instead , the system utilizes the solubility of the organic solvent in pressurized fluid solvent as well as the physical properties of pressurized fluid solvent . after an organic solvent cleaning cycle , the solvent is extracted from the textiles at high speed in a rotating drum in the same way conventional solvents are extracted from textiles in conventional evaporative hot air dry cleaning machines . instead of proceeding to a conventional drying cycle , the extracted textiles are then immersed in pressurized fluid solvent to extract the residual organic solvent from the textiles . this is possible because the organic solvent is soluble in pressurized fluid solvent . after the textiles are immersed in pressurized fluid solvent , pressurized fluid solvent is pumped from the drum . finally , the drum is de - pressurized to atmospheric pressure to evaporate any remaining pressurized fluid solvent , yielding clean , solvent free textiles . the organic solvent is preferably selected from terpenes , halohydrocarbons , certain glycol ethers , polyols , ethers , esters of glycol ethers , esters of fatty acids and other long chain carboxylic acids , fatty alcohols and other long - chain alcohols , short - chain alcohols , polar aprotic solvents , siloxanes , hydrofluoroethers , dibasic esters , and aliphatic hydrocarbons solvents or similar solvents or mixtures of such solvents and the pressurized fluid solvent is preferably densified carbon dioxide .