Mid Sweden University

Ionic liquids have the potential to be used forextracting valuable chemicals from raw materials. These processesoften involve water, and after extraction, the water or otherchemicals must be removed from the ionic liquid, so it can bereused. To help in designing such processes, we present data onthe vapor−liquid equilibrium of the system containing protic ionicliquid 7-methyl-1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-enium acetate,water, acetic acid, and 7-methyl-1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene. Earlier studies have only focused on mixtures of water and anionic liquid with a stoichiometric ratio of the ions. Here, we alsoinvestigated mixtures containing an excess of the acid or basecomponent because in real systems with protic ionic liquids, theamount of acid and base in the mixture can vary. We modeled thedata using both the ePC-SAFT and NRTL models, and we compared the performance of different modeling strategies. We alsoexperimentally determined the vapor composition for a few of the samples, but none of the modeling strategies tested couldaccurately predict the concentration of the acid and base components in the vapor phase.