DB - AGRIS

SN - 1520-5045
T3 - Industrial & engineering chemistry process design and development
AU - Dong, Yichun
AU - Dai, Chengna
AU - Lei, Zhigang
AN - US201800432132
UR - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.8b01617
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.8b01617
LA - English
KW - heat
KW - models
KW - process design
KW - enthalpy
KW - ethanol
KW - vapor pressure
KW - distillation
KW - acetates
KW - ethylene glycol
KW - methanol
KW - prediction
KW - ionic liquids
KW - condensers
TI - Separation of the Methanol–Ethanol–Water Mixture Using Ionic Liquid
AB - Vapor pressure data for the binary systems (water/methanol/ethanol + 1-ethyl-
3-methylimidazolium acetate ([EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻)) and the ternary systems (methanol +
water + [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻, ethanol + water + [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻, and methanol + ethanol +
[EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻) were measured by a modified equilibrium still. For the above systems,
the maximum average relative deviation between experimental data and the UNIFAC-Lei
model predicted values was 7%, confirming the prediction accuracy of the UNIFAC-Lei
model. Thus, this model was further used to predict the isobaric vapor–liquid
equilibrium (VLE) data at 101.3 kPa for the methanol + water + [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻,
ethanol + water + [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻, and methanol + ethanol + [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻ systems at a
fixed mole fraction of ionic liquid (IL) (xIL = 0.2). It was demonstrated that the
ionic liquid [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻ was an appropriate entrainer to separate the methanol–
ethanol–water mixture. On this basis, the extractive distillation process was
simulated using the rigorous equilibrium (EQ) stage model. The results showed that
the entrainer consumption, the heat duty of total reboilers, and the heat duty of
total condensers decrease by 25, 6, and 6%, respectively, when [EMIM]⁺[Ac]⁻
replaces the conventional entrainer ethylene glycol (EG). Furthermore, the σ-
profiles and excess enthalpies obtained by the COSMO-RS model provided theoretical
insights into the separation mechanism at the molecular level.
PB - American Chemical Society
PY - 2018-07-25
VL - 57
IS - 32
SP - 11167
EP - 11177
A2 - FAO of the UN