Designing ionic liquids for absorptive cooling

abstract

A computational methodology for designing ionic liquids (ILs) with an enhanced water absorption capacity to be used in absorption-refrigeration systems is presented here. It is based on increasing the hydrogen bond (HB)-acceptor ability of the anion and combining it with a cation that presents a weak cation-anion interaction. Employing this strategy, we identified and prepared three novel dianionic ILs with an enhanced water absorption capacity, larger than LiBr.

keywords

COSMO-RS; SYSTEM; WATER; BASICITY

subject category

Chemistry; Science & Technology - Other Topics

authors

Kurnia, KA; Pinho, SP; Coutinho, JAP

our authors

acknowledgements

This work was financed by national funding from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT), European Union, QREN, FEDER and COMPETE through the projects PTDC/QUI-QUI/121520/2010, PEst-C/CTM/LA0011/2013 and PEst-C/EQB/LA0020/2013. Kiki A. Kurnia acknowledges FCT for the post-doctoral grant SFRH/BPD/88101/2012.

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