Taking into account that heat application can have undesirable effects in essential oil properties, liquid extraction comes up as a promising process instead of distillation for citrus oil deterpenation. In this work the suitability of using the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium 2-(2-methoxyethoxy) ethylsulfate as a solvent for the extraction of linalool from citrus essential oil (which has been simulated as a mixture of limonene and linalool) has been analyzed. Liquid-liquid equilibrium data at three different temperatures (298.15 K, 308.15 K and 318.15 K) have been reported and successfully correlated using NRTL model. The best results were achieved using alpha = 0.1 for the systems at 298.15 K and 308.15 K and alpha = 0.2 at 318.15 K. The solute distribution ratio has showed values close to one and high values of selectivity have been achieved.
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above).
POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied;
the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.