Description and modelling of thermophysical properties and excess of eutetic mixtures

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, João Miguel Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/25582
• topic: Deep Eutectic Solvents; Viscosity; Density; Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium; Equation of State; soft-SAFT; High Pressure

Deep eutectic solvents (DES), a new class of solvents, have attracted the researcher’s attention in the last years due to their unique and “green” properties, such as their easy formulation and environmental impact, projecting them as alternative solvents for a large number of applications, like catalysis, organic synthesis, dissolution and extraction processes, electrochemistry, material chemistry and desulfurization of fuels. DES are formed by an eutectic mixture of a hydrogen bond donor (HBD) and a hydrogen bond acceptor (HBA). Owing to their promising applications, their physicochemical characterization, aiming at their use on industrial processes, stands highly relevant. This work focus on the formulation of eutectic mixtures, composed of [Ch]Cl + [EG], [Ch]Cl + [Gly] e [Ch]Cl + Ureia, and their thermophysical characterization, namely viscosity, density and boiling temperatures, at a wide range of temperatures (283 to 363 K) and pressures (0.05 to 100 MPa). The experimental data was further modeled using the soft-SAFT equation of state (EoS); an advance EoS able to explicitly account for the association between the DES constituents and shown to be able to describe the nonideality of the liquid phase. The soft-SAFT development allowed to propose new association schemes and molecular parameters for urea.