Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Short Communication
Ionic Liquids as Additives for Enhancing the Extraction, Absorption and Dissolution Processes
Author(s): Ramesh L. Gardas
Solvents are major contributors and high on the list of environmental damage chemicals, mainly because of their large usage and high volatility. The widespread use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in many industrial chemical processes is an issue of great environmental concern. It is an extremely important task to search of potentially green and environment friendly alternatives for VOCs. At least a partial solution to this problem may offer by a novel class of molten salts referred to as ionic liquids (having melting point, generally, below boiling point of water), as they possess unique combination of particular properties, namely negligible vapour pressure (~ 10-11 to 10-10 bar at room temperature), wide thermal window (~ -50 °C to +250 °C), wide electrochemical window (~ ±3 Volt vs. NHE), non-flammability, high ionic conductivity and a highly solvating capacity .. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2329-6836.20.8.02
