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Palomar J, Lemus J, Navarro P, Moya C, Santiago R, Hospital-Benito D, Hernández E. Process Simulation and Optimization on Ionic Liquids. Chem Rev 2024; 124:1649-1737. [PMID: 38320111 PMCID: PMC10906004 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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Ionic liquids (ILs) are promising alternative compounds that enable the development of technologies based on their unique properties as solvents or catalysts. These technologies require integrated product and process designs to select ILs with optimal process performances at an industrial scale to promote cost-effective and sustainable technologies. The digital era and multiscale research methodologies have changed the paradigm from experiment-oriented to hybrid experimental-computational developments guided by process engineering. This Review summarizes the relevant contributions (>300 research papers) of process simulations to advance IL-based technology developments by guiding experimental research efforts and enhancing industrial transferability. Robust simulation methodologies, mostly based on predictive COSMO-SAC/RS and UNIFAC models in Aspen Plus software, were applied to analyze key IL applications: physical and chemical CO2 capture, CO2 conversion, gas separation, liquid-liquid extraction, extractive distillation, refrigeration cycles, and biorefinery. The contributions concern the IL selection criteria, operational unit design, equipment sizing, technoeconomic and environmental analyses, and process optimization to promote the competitiveness of the proposed IL-based technologies. Process simulation revealed that multiscale research strategies enable advancement in the technological development of IL applications by focusing research efforts to overcome the limitations and exploit the excellent properties of ILs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jose Palomar
- Chemical
Engineering Department, Autonomous University
of Madrid, Calle Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Autonomous University
of Madrid, Calle Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Autonomous University
of Madrid, Calle Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento
de Tecnología Química, Energética y Mecánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento
de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica, Control,
Telemática y Química aplicada a la Ingeniería,
ETS de Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Autonomous University
of Madrid, Calle Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical
Engineering Department, Autonomous University
of Madrid, Calle Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Condensable gases are the sum of condensable and volatile steam or organic compounds, including water vapor, which are discharged into the atmosphere in gaseous form at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. Condensable toxic and harmful gases emitted from petrochemical, chemical, packaging and printing, industrial coatings, and mineral mining activities seriously pollute the atmospheric environment and endanger human health. Meanwhile, these gases are necessary chemical raw materials; therefore, developing green and efficient capture technology is significant for efficiently utilizing condensed gas resources. To overcome the problems of pollution and corrosion existing in traditional organic solvent and alkali absorption methods, ionic liquids (ILs), known as "liquid molecular sieves", have received unprecedented attention thanks to their excellent separation and regeneration performance and have gradually become green solvents used by scholars to replace traditional absorbents. This work reviews the research progress of ILs in separating condensate gas. As the basis of chemical engineering, this review first provides a detailed discussion of the origin of predictive molecular thermodynamics and its broad application in theory and industry. Afterward, this review focuses on the latest research results of ILs in the capture of several important typical condensable gases, including water vapor, aromatic VOCs (i.e., BTEX), chlorinated VOC, fluorinated refrigerant gas, low-carbon alcohols, ketones, ethers, ester vapors, etc. Using pure IL, mixed ILs, and IL + organic solvent mixtures as absorbents also briefly expanded the related reports of porous materials loaded with an IL as adsorbents. Finally, future development and research directions in this exciting field are remarked.
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- Guoxuan Li
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Environmental Catalysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 266, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Environmental Catalysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 266, Beijing 100029, China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
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Rather SU, Sulaimon AA, Shariff AM, Qasim A, Bamufleh HS, Alhumade HA, Saeed U, Al-Alayah W. Investigation of physical properties and carbon dioxide solubility in tetramethylammonium bromide and tetraethylammonium bromide ionic liquids solutions. CHEMOSPHERE 2023:139290. [PMID: 37348612 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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Carbon dioxide is a major greenhouse gas that is responsible for global warming and renders harmful effects on the atmosphere. The unconstrained release of CO2 into the atmosphere should be prevented and various techniques have been developed in this regard to capture CO2 using different solvents and other compounds. Ionic liquids are a suitable candidate to capture CO2 due to their better solubility behaviour. In this work, two ionic liquids namely tetramethylammonium bromide (TMAB) and tetraethylammonium bromide (TEAB) are employed experimentally to capture CO2 and investigate their solubility behaviour. The study is performed at the temperature values of 303 K, 313 K, and 323 K and the pressure values of 5, 10, 15, and 20 bar equivalent to 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 MPa respectively. The concentrations of both ionic liquid solutions are 2.5 wt%, 5.0 wt%, and 10.0 wt%. The solubility results are considered in terms of mol fraction which is the ratio of moles of CO2 captured per moles of ionic liquid. The density and viscosity values are also determined for both compounds at respective conditions. COSMO-RS is used to generate the sigma profile, sigma surface, and Henry's constant of the ions involved in the study. CO2 is found to be soluble in both ionic liquids, but TEAB showed better solubility behaviour as compared to TMAB. The solubility of CO2 is found to be increasing with the increase in pressure while it decreases with the increase in temperature.
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- Sami-Ullah Rather
- Department of Chemical Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia; Centre of Research in Ionic Liquids (CORIL), Institute of Contaminant Management (ICM), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia; CO(2) Research Centre (CO2RES), Institute of Contaminant Management (ICM), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
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- Centre of Research in Ionic Liquids (CORIL), Institute of Contaminant Management (ICM), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia; Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Foorginezhad S, Yu G, Ji X. Reviewing and screening ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for effective CO2 capture. Front Chem 2022; 10:951951. [PMID: 36034653 PMCID: PMC9399623 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.951951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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CO2 capture is essential for both mitigating CO2 emissions and purifying/conditioning gases for fuel and chemical production. To further improve the process performance with low environmental impacts, different strategies have been proposed, where developing liquid green absorbent for capturing CO2 is one of the effective options. Ionic liquids (IL)/deep eutectic solvents (DES) have recently emerged as green absorbents with unique properties, especially DESs also benefit from facile synthesis, low toxicity, and high biodegradability. To promote their development, this work summarized the recent research progress on ILs/DESs developed for CO2 capture from the aspects of those physical- and chemical-based, and COSMO-RS was combined to predict the properties that are unavailable from published articles in order to evaluate their performance based on the key properties for different IL/DES-based technologies. Finally, top 10 ILs/DESs were listed based on the corresponding criteria. The shared information will provide insight into screening and further developing IL/DES-based technologies for CO2 capture.
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- Sahar Foorginezhad
- Energy Science/Energy Engineering, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
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- Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Gangqiang Yu, ; Xiaoyan Ji,
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- Energy Science/Energy Engineering, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
- *Correspondence: Gangqiang Yu, ; Xiaoyan Ji,
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Finberg EA, May TL, Shiflett MB. Multicomponent Refrigerant Separation Using Extractive Distillation with Ionic Liquids. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Ethan A. Finberg
- Institute for Sustainable Engineering, University of Kansas, 1536 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, 1530 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Institute for Sustainable Engineering, University of Kansas, 1536 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, 1530 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Institute for Sustainable Engineering, University of Kansas, 1536 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, 1530 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Patil T, Dharaskar S, Sinha M, Jampa SS. Effectiveness of ionic liquid-supported membranes for carbon dioxide capture: a review. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:35723-35745. [PMID: 35260978 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-19586-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The world's population explosion creates a need for natural resources for energy, which will become a significant contributor to global climate change. As we all know, carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most critical elements of the global greenhouse gas effect. CO2 capture and storage innovations have piqued researchers' attention in recent decades. Compared to other methods, membrane separation has some positive performance in CO2 capture. CO2 capture with membrane separation using enhanced ionic liquids (ILs) is described in this review. ILs have made an appearance in CO2 capture work as the potential additive, and companies and academics have been interested in CO2 separation for the past two decades. This article comprehensively analyzes the current modern approach in ILs and IL-based membranes for gas separation processes. Based on the latest literature and performance data, this work provides a complete compressive examination of types of ILs and IL-supported membrane performances. ILs for CO2 capture were also explored, and IL-based membranes for different ILs were also studied. This study emphasizes the supremacy of novel ILs for CO2 capture in membrane separation.
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- Tushar Patil
- CO2 Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, 382426, Raisan, Gandhinagar, India
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- CO2 Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, 382426, Raisan, Gandhinagar, India.
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- CO2 Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, 382426, Raisan, Gandhinagar, India
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- CO2 Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, 382426, Raisan, Gandhinagar, India
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Cao Y, Wu Z, Zhang Y, Liu Y, Wang H. Screening of alternative solvent ionic liquids for artemisinin: COSMO-RS prediction and experimental verification. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Jiang Y, Wang Z, Lei Z, Yu G. Structural effects on thermodynamic behavior and hydrogen bond interactions of water–ionic liquid systems. Chem Eng Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2020.116186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The CO2 solubilities (including CO2 Henry’s constants) and viscosities in ionic liquids (ILs)/deep eutectic solvents (DESs)-based hybrid solvents were comprehensively collected and summarized. The literature survey results of CO2 solubility illustrated that the addition of hybrid solvents to ILs/DESs can significantly enhance the CO2 solubility, and some of the ILs-based hybrid solvents are super to DESs-based hybrid solvents. The best hybrid solvents of IL–H2O, IL–organic, IL–amine, DES–H2O, and DES–organic are [DMAPAH][Formate] (2.5:1) + H2O (20 wt %) (4.61 mol/kg, 298 K, 0.1 MPa), [P4444][Pro] + PEG400 (70 wt %) (1.61 mol/kg, 333.15 K, 1.68 MPa), [DMAPAH][Formate] (2.0:1) + MEA (30 wt %) (6.24 mol/kg, 298 K, 0.1 MPa), [TEMA][Cl]-GLY-H2O 1:2:0.11 (0.66 mol/kg, 298 K, 1.74 MPa), and [Ch][Cl]-MEA 1:2 + DBN 1:1 (5.11 mol/kg, 298 K, 0.1 MPa), respectively. All of these best candidates show higher CO2 solubility than their used pure ILs or DESs, evidencing that IL/DES-based hybrid solvents are remarkable for CO2 capture. For the summarized viscosity results, the presence of hybrid solvents in ILs and DESs can decrease their viscosities. The lowest viscosities acquired in this work for IL–H2O, IL–amine, DES–H2O, and DES–organic hybrid solvents are [DEA][Bu] + H2O (98.78 mol%) (0.59 mPa·s, 343.15 K), [BMIM][BF4] + DETA (94.9 mol%) (2.68 mPa·s, 333.15 K), [L-Arg]-GLY 1:6 + H2O (60 wt %) (2.7 mPa·s, 353.15 K), and [MTPP][Br]-LEV-Ac 1:3:0.03 (16.16 mPa·s, 333.15 K) at 0.1 MPa, respectively.
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Bai Y, Zeng S, Bai L, Gao H, Zhou Z, Zhang X. Highly Efficient Dehydration of Ethyl Acetate using Strong Hydrophilic Ionic Liquids. Ind Eng Chem Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c02727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yinge Bai
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
- Zhengzhou Institute of Emerging Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou 450000, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
- Zhengzhou Institute of Emerging Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou 450000, P.R. China
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