This book provides a comprehensive overview of ionic liquid based separation techniques. The glimpse of thermodynamic predictive models along with global optimization techniques will help readers understand the separation techniques at molecular and macroscopic levels. Experimental and characterization techniques are coupled with model based predictions so as to provide multicomponent data for the scientific community. The models will focus more on the a-priori based predictions which gives higher emphasis on hydrogen-bonded systems. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique will also eventually help the readers to apply optimization technique to an extraction process. The overriding goal of this work is to provide pathways for leading engineers and researchers toward a clear understanding and firm grasp of the phase equilibria of Ionic Liquid systems.
1. Introduction
2. Liquid-liquid Equilibria: Experiments and Predictions by Gibbs free
energy models
3. COSMO-SAC: A predictive model for calculating thermodynamic properties on
a-priori basis
4. Application of COSMO-SAC in complex phase behavior: Vapor-Liquid-Liquid
Equilibria
5. Modification in COSMO-SAC
6. Particle Swarm Optimization and application to LLE
7. Cuckoo Search Optimization and application to LLE
Anand Bharti is currently a Research Scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
Debashis Kundu is currently a Research Scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
Dharamashi Rabari is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
Tamal Banerjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
