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Carbon Dioxide Solubility in Polymerized Ionic Liquids Containing Ammonium and Imidazolium Cations from Magnetic Suspension Balance: P[VBTMA][BF4] and P[VBMI][BF4]

by: Andre Blasig, Jianbin Tang, Xudong Hu, Sugata P. Tan, Youqing Shen, Maciej Radosz

(Industrial Engineering & Chemical Research, 2007, vol. 46, pp. 5542-5547)

Abstract

On the basis of sorption experiments up to 180 bar and 75 oC, the CO2 solubility in an ammonium-type ionic polymer, such as poly(p-vinylbenzyltrimethyl ammonium tetrafluoroborate), is found to be much higher than that in an imidazolium-type ionic polymer, such as poly(1-(p-vinylbenzyl)-3-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate), which suggests that the cation type plays an important role in CO2 sorption in polymerized ionic liquids. These two polymers remain glassy in the temperature and pressure ranges studied in this work. The CO2 solubility increases with decreasing temperature and with increasing pressure, but it reaches a limiting value, beyond which it is insensitive to pressure.