Screening ionic liquids as candidates for separation of acid gases: Solubility of hydrogen sulfide, methane, and ethane
Screening ionic liquids as candidates for separation of acid gases: Solubility of hydrogen sulfide, methane, and ethane
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10.1002/aic.14081
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发表时间:
2013-08-01
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3.7
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Marriott, Robert A.
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Mortazavi-Manesh, Soheil;Satyro, Marco A.;Marriott, Robert A.
The solubility of the major constituents of natural gas in ionic liquids (ILs) can be used to identify their potential for acid gas removal from a producing gas stream. We have developed models for the solubility of H2S, CH4, and C2H6 in ILs at typical conditions encountered in natural gas treatment. In this work, a conductor-like screening model for realistic solvation was used to predict the activity coefficients for solutes in ILs and a cubic EOS was used for vapor-phase corrections from ideality. Empirical correlations were developed to extrapolate solubilities where experimental data are not available at desired conditions; targeted in this study at 298.15 K and 2000 kPa. Over 400 possible ILs were ranked based on the higher selectivity of absorption of CO2 and H2S over CH4 and C2H6. The best 15% (58) of promising ILs for sour gas treatment predominantly contain the anions BF4, NO3, and CH3SO4 and the cations N-4111, pmg, and tmg. (c) 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 59: 2993-3005, 2013