Solubility of CO2 in room temperature ionic liquid [hmim][Tf2N]

Solubility measurements of carbon dioxide in 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide have been performed with a gravimetric microbalance at temperatures of about 282, 297, 323, and 348 K and pressures up to about 2 MPa. Two different sources for the ionic liquid are examined in this work: an ultrapure sample from NIST (the IUPAC task force sample) and a commercially available sample. Both samples show nearly identical solubility behaviors, being undistinguishable within experimental uncertainties. Solubility (pressure-temperature-composition) data have been well correlated with an equation-of-state (EOS) model used in our previous works. The EOS model calculations are compared with experimental solubility data for the same system in the literature. The present EOS has predicted partial immiscibility at the CO2-rich side solutions. To prove this prediction, vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium experiments have been made, and our predictions have been confirmed.