Liquid-liquid separation of azeotropic mixtures of ethanol/alkanes using deep eutectic solvents: COSMO-RS prediction and experimental validation

• Main Authors: Hadj-Kali, M.K., Hizaddin, H.F., Wazeer, I., El blidi, L., Mulyono, S., Hashim, M.A.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/17593/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2017.05.021

Separation of azeotropic mixtures is a topic of great industrial interest. In this work, liquid-liquid extraction using deep eutectic solvents (DESs) is explored to separate binary azeotropic mixtures of ethanol and n-hexane, n-heptane or n-octane. Ten DESs were screened using the COSMO-RS approach...