2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

(583d) Measurement of Distribution Coefficients for Phenols in Ionic Liquid/Water Two-Phase System

Authors

Go Inoue - Presenter, Kyushu University
Feifei Su, Kyushu University
Satoshi Takada, Kyushu University
Katsumi Honda, Kyushu University
Yusuke Shimoyama, Kyushu University
Yoshio Iwai, Kyushu University
Yasuhiko Arai, Kyushu University
The distribution coefficients for phenols (phenol, o-cresol, m-cresol, p-cresol, 3,5-xylenol and á-naphthol) in ionic liquid(1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium haxafluorophosphate([bmim][PF6]))/water two-phase system were measured at 25 C to examine a removal ability of phenols in wastewater by the liquid-liquid extraction. Judging from these distribution coefficients, it is feasible that phenols can be extracted from wastewater by using the present ionic liquid. The infinite dilution distribution coefficients of phenols obtained in this study were correlated by the regular solution theory. Further, ASOG, which is one of the successful group contribution activity coefficient models, was applied and the group interaction parameters were determined. The correlated results based on the above two models are in good agreement with the experimental results.