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AuthorChong, Fah Keen
AuthorFoo, Dominic C.Y.
AuthorEljack, Fadwa T.
AuthorAtilhan, Mert
AuthorChemmangattuvalappil, Nishanth G.
Available date2021-07-01T05:48:08Z
Publication Date2016
Publication NameMolecular Systems Design and Engineering
ResourceScopus
ISSN2058-9689
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5me00013k
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/20916
AbstractCarbon capture and storage (CCS) has gained great interest in recent years as a potential technology to mitigate industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Ionic liquids (ILs) were identified as potential CO2 capturing solvents, due to their negligible vapour pressure, high thermal stability, and wide range of thermophysical properties. However, determining a task-specific IL merely through experimental studies is tedious and costly, as there are about a million possible combinations of cations and anions that may make up the ILs. This work presents a systematic approach to design an optimal IL for the purpose of carbon capture. The significant contribution of the presented approach in this work is the introduction of disjunctive programming to identify optimal operating conditions of the process involved while solving the IL synthesis problem. As studies show, the performance of ILs changes with the operating conditions, which in turn affects overall performance of the carbon capture process. Hence, the presented approach will determine the optimal IL by considering the effect of system operating conditions, and simultaneously determining optimal conditions of the carbon capture process. Operating conditions of the process are modelled as continuous variables; disjunctive programming can discretise these variables and reduce search space for results. Since most of the ILs to be designed are novel solvents, their thermophysical properties are estimated using the group contribution (GC) method. Appropriate structural constraints are defined to ensure the structure of the synthesised IL is feasible. An illustrative case study is solved to demonstrate the proposed approach.
Languageen
PublisherRoyal Society of Chemistry
TitleA systematic approach to design task-specific ionic liquids and their optimal operating conditions
TypeArticle
Pagination109-121
Issue Number1
Volume Number1
dc.accessType Abstract Only


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