Solubilities of SO 2 have been determined in four biobased solvents (BBSs) at temperatures between 293.15 K and 323.15 K with 10 K intervals and pressure scope of (0–120.0) kPa using isochoric saturation method. The BBSs were selected from butyl lactate (BL), glyceryl triacetate (GT), triethyl citrate (TEC), and acetyl triethyl citrate (ATEC). Henry’s constants and thermodynamic properties such as Gibbs free energy , enthalpy and entropy of dissolution were derived from the solubility data. The gravimetric solubilities of SO 2 in BBSs were in the range of (0.07–8.52) mol.kg −1 and changed with the sequence of GT > BL > TEC ≈ ATEC. All the dissolution enthalpies were negative at each condition. The performances of SO 2 absorption in these solvents were further compared with those in some ionic liquids as well as common absorbents. The results illustrated that present BBSs possessed the potentiality as SO 2 absorbents due to their relatively large absorption ability, small absorption enthalpy, low toxicity, and biodegradability.
Magnetic ionic liquids (MILs), combines the general properties of ionic liquid with magnetic properties, are starting to attract interest in the field of propane/propylene separation and CO 2 capture. Solubility data of propane, propylene, cyclopropane and CO 2 in magnetic ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrachloroferrate [bmim][FeCl 4 ] at temperatures of (303, 313, 323, 333, 343) K and pressures up to 3300 kPa were determined in the present work. The relative expanded uncertainty of solubility measurement is estimated to be less than 4% with a level of confidence of 95%. The Henry’s constants for the four gases in [bmim][FeCl 4 ] and selectivity of C 3 H 6 /C 3 H 8 in [bmim][FeCl 4 ] were calculated. And the thermodynamic properties of solvation concerned about the Gibbs energy (Δ sol G ∞ ), the enthalpy (Δ sol H ∞ ) and the entropy (Δ sol S ∞ ) of solvation were also obtained to offer knowledge for understanding the progress of gases dissolved in [bmim][FeCl 4 ]. The experimental results were correlated with a modified KK equation and NRTL equation.