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Phase Change and Regeneration Behaviors of Amino Acid Ionic Liquids Absorbents

Version 1 : Received: 21 December 2018 / Approved: 21 December 2018 / Online: 21 December 2018 (15:26:24 CET)

How to cite: Chen, X.; Guo, H.; Ouyang, H.; Song, Q.; Sun, Z.; Xu, Z.; Li, C.; Jiang, B. Phase Change and Regeneration Behaviors of Amino Acid Ionic Liquids Absorbents. Preprints 2018, 2018120263. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201812.0263.v1 Chen, X.; Guo, H.; Ouyang, H.; Song, Q.; Sun, Z.; Xu, Z.; Li, C.; Jiang, B. Phase Change and Regeneration Behaviors of Amino Acid Ionic Liquids Absorbents. Preprints 2018, 2018120263. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201812.0263.v1

Abstract

As novel materials for carbon capture, phase change solvents can separate into two immiscible phases during the CO2 capturing procedure under a certain temperature. The solvent systems can significantly decrease the energy consumption since the solvents can be regenerated by only heating the rich-CO2 phase. In this work, amino acid ionic liquids (AAILs) were synthesized using quaternary ammonium salts and amino acids as raw materials, and the aqueous solutions were prepared as novel liquid-solid phase change solvents. The results showed that the solvents had excellent CO2 absorption capacity, and the AAILs functionalized by glycine and tryptophan exhibited significant phase change properties. The mechanism of phase-change of the solvent were mainly due to the lower solubility of the product after reaction between AAILs and CO2. The solvent with tryptophan as anion could be regenerated by only heating the CO2-riched solid phase, which might significantly decrease energy consumption of regeneration. And the absorbent could be reused with the regenerated absorption ratio up to 79%. The solvent system has great potential in industrial application due to the easy operation process and efficient recycling ability.

Keywords

Amino acid ionic liquid; phase change solvent; high CO2 absorption capacity; mechanism of phase change; recycling ability

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Applied Chemistry

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