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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Ionic Liquids

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Ionic liquids (ILs) are known as those of fuse salts that have melting point less than 100 °C, but salts with higher melting points known as molten salts. Ionic compounds are usually solid with high melting point[1]. ILs have been considered as compounds of attention by the research community since 2005. ILs also exhibit some unusual highly desirable and unique physical properties such low vapor pressure under ambient, high thermal stability and wide liquid range conditions among others. These compounds show some advantages when compared to other classic solvents as well as know as “green chemistry”. On the other hand, since their uniqueness, a deep understanding of their phase behavior and their interactions with other components is still desirable. Furthermore, they have the potential to be the “designer solvents” since their physical and chemical properties can be modified by adjusting the adequate selection of structure and species of cations and/or anions for a given end use. For example, one or both of the constituent ions can be changed in order to control its …show more content…

When ILs and amines are combined together, it’s give a better performance than amine functionalized ILs. Correspondingly, Feng and co-workers [10] has prepared binary mixtures of four different ILs with N-methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) for CO2 capture. They found that the presence of IL in the mixture improved the solubility. Based on plant experience and laboratory data, relative corrosivity of amines is ranked as follows: monoethanolamine (MEA) > diethanolamine (DEA) > MDEA. Therefore, MDEA is prominent among others such due to its unique properties such as less corrosive behavior, resistance to chemical and thermal degradation and low vapor pressure[11]. In order for ILs to be applied in industrial processes, an understanding the phase behavior and solvent-solute interactions is

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