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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
Volume 234, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.116128
Keywords
Ionic liquids; Aromatic/aliphatic separation; Extractive distillation; HS-GC; CPA EoS
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Funding
- FEDER through COMPETE-2020 Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizacio (POCI) [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007679, FCT UID/CTM/50011/2013]
- FCT Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain [CTQ2017-85340-R]
- FCT [SFRH/BPD/117084/2016, IF/00758/2015]
- MINECO [BES-2015-072855]
- Ministerio de Eduacion, Cultura y Deporte of Spain [CAS17/00018]
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The aromatic/aliphatic separation using ionic liquids (ILs) has been proposed as an enhanced technology when compared to conventional liquid-liquid extraction and extractive distillation processes. Some ILs show extractive properties (distribution ratios and selectivities) greater than those of conventional solvents, like sulfolane and N-methylpyrrolidone, positioning these solvents to address challenging separations. Methylcycloalkanes and benzene are close-boiling mixtures in the petrochemical industry, presented at the hydrogenated pyrolysis naphtha where benzene is at a high concentration (ca. 70 wt%). Aiming to tackle this separation, cyano-based ILs were tested as mass agents in the benzene separation from methylcycloalkanes. A complete phase equilibria characterization with the most promising ILs, [C(2)C(1)im] [DCA] and [C(2)C(1)im][SCN], were done, using a recently developed experimental-modelling strategy. Isothermal vapour-liquid equilibria for binary, ternary and quaternary systems was measured by Headspace Gas-Chromatography (HS-GC) and modelled using the Cubic Plus Association (CPA) Equation of State (EoS). The presence of the ILs improved the methylcycloalkane/benzene relative volatilities by one order of magnitude, whereas homogeneous and heterogeneous regions were determined by HS-GC, leading to a consistent model.
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