Screening of Metal Chloride Anion-based Ionic Liquids for Direct Conversion of Hydrogen Sulfide by COSMO-RS

Abstract

In order to identify the best possible reaction media for performing H2S conversion, a total number of 300 different ILs from a combination of 20 cations and 15 anions were screened via COSMO-RS model simulations. By COSMO-RS method, thermodynamic and physicochemical properties of 300 ILs such as Henry’s law constants, activity coefficient, selectivity, capacity and performance index are obtained and analyzed. Thus, by comparing the performance of ILs via COSMO-RS, a series of TSILs containing cation of [P66614] with metal chloride anions such as Fe, Ga and Sn were chosen and selected for synthesis based on their performance predicted by COSMO-RS and their economic values. Consequently, the physiochemical properties such as density, viscosity, thermal properties, as well as H2S absorptive oxidation performances in those TSILs will be systematically investigated.

Keywords

• task specific ionic liquids
• conversion of h2s
• h2s
• sour natural gas