Journal
FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA
Volume 333, Issue -, Pages 47-54Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2012.07.020
Keywords
Deep eutectic solvents; Ionic liquids analogues; Liquid-liquid extraction; Aromatics separation; Phosphonium salts
Funding
- University of Malaya [HIR-MOHE D000003-16001]
- King Saud University [RGP-VPP-108]
- Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Department, engineering faculty in Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
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In this work, new solvents are introduced to conduct the task of removing aromatic hydrocarbons from the feed stream to ethylene cracker. Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) data for ternary systems of toluene and heptane with two newly introduced deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were estimated experimentally at 40, 50 and 60 degrees C and atmospheric pressure. The DESs are made from tetrabutylphosphonium bromide as salt and either ethylene glycol or sulfolane as hydrogen bond donor (HBD). The reliability of the LLE data were ascertained by applying the Othmer-Tobias and Hand correlations. The non-random two liquid (NRTL) model was used to correlate the experimental tie-lines and to calculate the phase compositions of the ternary systems. The results showed a very good agreement between calculated and experimental compositions. Further LLE data are presented to estimate the improvement of the separation by changing the salt:HBD molar ratio used to synthesize the DES at 30, 40, 50 and 60 degrees C. This work illustrates the possibility of applying these two DESs as solvents for this extraction task. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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