Low-Pressure Capture Using Ionic Liquids
A special issue of ChemEngineering (ISSN 2305-7084).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 353
Special Issue Editor
Interests: : environmental control; life support systems; atmosphere revitalization; supported ionic liquid membranes; gas separation; space habitat design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue “Low-Pressure Capture Using Ionic Liquids” solicits articles for publication in the MDPI journal ChemEngineering.
Room-temperature ionic liquids have shown promise for the highly selective capture of gases, with potential application to the control of greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas treatment, the revitalization of spacecraft atmospheres, and the sequestration of gases from planetary atmospheres. These complex salts are liquids at room temperature, have negligible vapor pressures, and are generally stable below about 200 °C. Depending on the nature of the anion and/or functional groups comprising their molecular structure, ionic liquids have the unique ability to solvate water vapor, greenhouse gases, and acidic or basic gases even at reduced and low partial pressures. In recognition of these attributes, the potential for membranes and membrane-less contactor technologies employing these novel liquids has been recognized.
Within this context, this Special Issue aims to compile relevant contributions that study the influence of ionic liquid molecular structures on absorption and diffusion, as well as those that apply ionic liquids for the selective solvated diffusion of gases via supported liquid membranes, gas–liquid membrane contactors, or free surface (i.e., membrane-less) gas–liquid contactors. Computational modeling and experimental manuscripts, as well as comprehensive reviews, are welcome. Significant and new contributions to the molecular dynamics modeling of solvated diffusion through ionic liquids; the development of quantitative structure–property relationships for the prediction of ionic liquid properties and behavior; experiments to report gas uptake, diffusion, and permeance with novel ionic liquids; and the development and scale-up of ionic-liquid-based chemical engineering processes for gas capture from atmospheres at reduced pressure or having contaminants at torr-level partial pressures are particularly desired.
Submit your paper and select the Journal “ChemEngineering” and the Special Issue “Low-Pressure Capture Using Ionic Liquids” via: MDPI submission system. Please contact the special issue editor ([email protected]) for any queries. Our papers will be published on a rolling basis and we will be pleased to receive your submission once you have finished it.
Dr. James Nabity
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ionic liquids
- Supported liquid membranes
- Membrane contactors
- Gas separation
- Solution diffusion
- Reversible uptake
- Molecular dynamics
- Computational chemistry
- Quantitative structure–property relationships
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