Composition and structural effects on the adsorption of ionic liquids onto activated carbon

The applications and variety of ionic liquids (ILs) have increased during the last few years, and their use at a large scale will require their removal/recovery from wastewater streams. Adsorption on activated carbons (ACs) has been recently proposed for this aim and this work presents a systematic...

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Autores: Lemus Torres, Jesús, Freire, Mara G., Palomar Herrero, José Francisco, Neves, Catarina M. S. S., Marques, Carlos F. C., Coutinho, João A. P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/671034
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/671034
https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3em00230f
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Activated carbon
Ammonium derivative
Anion
Cation
Imidazole derivative
Ionic liquid
Phosphonium derivative
Piperidine derivative
Pyridinium derivative
Pyrrolidine derivative
Surface water
Química
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Sumario:The applications and variety of ionic liquids (ILs) have increased during the last few years, and their use at a large scale will require their removal/recovery from wastewater streams. Adsorption on activated carbons (ACs) has been recently proposed for this aim and this work presents a systematic analysis of the influence of the IL chemical structures (cation side chain, head group, anion type and the presence of functional groups) on their adsorption onto commercial AC from water solution. Here, the adsorption of 21 new ILs, which include imidazolium-, pyridinium-, pyrrolidinium-, piperidinium-, phosphonium- and ammonium-based cations and different hydrophobic and hydrophilic anions, has been experimentally measured. This contribution allows an expansion of the range of IL compounds studied in previous works, and permits a better understanding of the influence of the IL structures through the adsorption on AC. In addition, the COSMO-RS method was used to analyze the measured adsorption isotherms, allowing the understanding of the role of the cationic and anionic structures in the adsorption process, in terms of the different interactions between the IL compound and AC surface/water solvent. The results of this work provide new insights for the development of adsorption as an effective operation to remove/recover ILs with very different chemical nature from water solution