Experiments, correlations and COSMO-RS predictions for the extraction of benzothiophene from n-hexane using imidazolium-based ionic liquids

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-39

  Varma, Nirmal Ravi ^a   Ramalingam, Anantharaj ^a   Banerjee, Tamal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Benzothiophene; COSMO RS; Desulphurization; Ionic liquid; NRTL; UNIQUAC

Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIOPHENE; COSMO-RS; DESULPHURIZATION; NRTL; UNIQUAC;

DESULFURIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; HEXANE; IONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SULFUR; THIOPHENE;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 78650303820     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.09.015     Document Type: Article

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