Recent advances in ionic liquids as alternative to surfactants/chemicals for application in upstream oil industry

A Bera, J Agarwal, M Shah, S Shah, RK Vij - Journal of Industrial and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The oil industry is in search of the stable chemicals that can be applied in drilling,
stimulation, enhanced oil recovery at high temperature and high salinity reservoirs …

COSMO-RS based screening of ionic liquids for extraction of phenolic compounds from aqueous media

AS Khan, TH Ibrahim, Z Rashid, MI Khamis… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the superior thermophysical properties and tunable nature of ionic liquids (ILs), these
materials are considered as potential alternative for the removal of phenolic compounds by …

Design and optimization of the efficient extractive distillation process for separating the binary azeotropic mixture methanol-acetone based on the quantum chemistry …

Y Hu, F Li, S Wei, S Jin, W Shen - Separation and Purification Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The contribution of this work is proposing a systematic approach to design an efficient
extractive distillation (ED) process for separating binary azeotropic mixture, which including …

Decontamination of enoxacin containing aqueous phase through hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents: Solvent regeneration and quantum chemical insights

N Paul, G Harish, T Banerjee - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
The current work addresses the extraction of a drug (enoxacin) from an aqueous
environment by liquid-liquid extraction using three hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents …

Dispersion of asphaltenes in petroleum with ionic liquids: Evaluation of molecular interactions in the binary mixture

AS Ogunlaja, E Hosten, ZR Tshentu - Industrial & Engineering …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids containing imidazolium cations 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride, 1-butyl-3-
methylimidazolium nitrate, and 1-methyl-1 H-imidazol-3-ium-2-carboxybenzoate were …

Screening of ionic liquids as green oilfield solvents for the potential removal of asphaltene from simulated oil: COSMO-RS model approach

Z Rashid, CD Wilfred, N Gnanasundaram… - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Petroleum industry encounters a challenge to search prospective solvents for asphaltene
species which is the main cause of arterial blockage in oil pipelines that results in flow …

Overview: effective separation of oxygen-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-containing aromatics in high-temperature coal tar by ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents …

WW Yan, XY Wei, MX Wang… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Heteroatom-containing aromatics (HACAs), such as oxygen-containing aromatics (OCAs),
nitrogen-containing aromatics (NCAs), and sulfur-containing aromatics (SCAs), in high …

Insight into the adsorption properties of CO2 and H2 gas on the B12Y12 (YN, P, As, Sb) nanocages from host-guest interaction perspective

AA Choir, SR Amelia, MA Martoprawiro… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to the huge increase in population and industrial activity over the past century, the
natural air environment is becoming increasingly polluted. Therefore, it is essential to …

Effect of the cation on the interactions between alkyl methyl imidazolium chloride ionic liquids and water

I Khan, M Taha, P Ribeiro-Claro, SP Pinho… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A systematic study of the interactions between water and alkyl methyl imidazolium chloride
ionic liquids at 298.2 K, based on activity coefficients estimated from water activity …

Separation of indole by designed ionic liquids with dual functional chemical sites: Mechanism exploration and experimental validation

Q Liu, T Zhang, P Gao, J Gao, D Xu, P Zhao… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
As a hopeful solvent, ionic liquids with tremendous combination of functional chemical sites
in the cations and anions can make the separation process efficiently and selectively. Thus …