Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
215467 The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2014 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Experimental data on the gas solubility of CHF3, CH2F2 and CH3F in room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) at 1 atm is reported.•CPA EoS is applied to model the solubilities of HFCs in RTILs with a good qualitative agreement.•Semi-empirical model based on the regular-solution theory is correlated to experimental data with AAD (x2)(x2) values around 5%.•HFCs are more soluble in [C2mim][NTf2] and [P6,6,6,14][NTf2] up to 2.5 times more than in ammonium-based RTILs.

In this work, experimental data on the gas solubility of hydrofluorocarbons (CHF3, CH2F2 and CH3F) in four room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) were determined within the temperature range 288 K to 308 K and at atmospheric pressure. The RTILs used were 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide([C2mim][NTf2]), (trihexyl)tetradecyl-phosphoniumbis(trifluoro-methylsulfonyl)imide ([P6,6,6,14][NTf2]), and N-methyl-2-hydroxyethylammoniumpropionate ([m-2-HEA][Pr]) and pentanoate ([m-2-HEA][P]). Two modelling approaches, which we denote as predictive and correlative, were compared. In the former, the cubic plus association equation of state (CPA EoS) is used as a predictive model to estimate the solubilities using only pure components physical properties. In the latter, the regular-solution theory is the basis to build an empirical model whose parameters are obtained through least-squares fitting of experimental values.

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