Volume 18, Issue 2 e2875
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Investigation of molecular interaction, performance of green solvent in esterification of ethanol and acetic acid at 298.15 K and at 1 atm

Anantharaj Ramalingam

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Anantharaj Ramalingam

Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India

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Anantharaj Ramalingam, Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya College of Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), Kalavakkam, Tamilnadu 603110, India.

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Tamal Banerjee

Tamal Banerjee

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

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Vivek Mariappan Santhi

Vivek Mariappan Santhi

Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India

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Dhirendra Kumar Mishra

Dhirendra Kumar Mishra

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

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Danish John Paul Mark Reji

Danish John Paul Mark Reji

Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India

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Shruthi Nagaraj

Shruthi Nagaraj

Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India

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First published: 03 February 2023
Citations: 2

Abstract

In the present study, the potential of a selective green solvent for the low temperature esterification were analysed. Hence, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulphate {[EMIM][HSO4]},1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulphate {[EMIM][EtSO4]}, choline chloride glycerol {[ChCl][Gly]} and choline chloride acetic acid {[ChCl][AA]} were chosen as a selective green solvent. Whereas water, ethanol, acetic acid can be treated as molecular solvent used in the esterification process. In this reason, density of eight binary mixtures over the entire mole fractions were measured at different temperature ranges. The results have been used to calculate the excess and derived thermodynamic properties, to measure the strength of molecular interaction between mixing components. Further, the sigma profile and sigma potential plot were generated and analysed. According to density, volumetric properties, molecular polarity results, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulphate [EMIM][HSO4] was chosen as green solvent for the green esterification process. Finally, [EMIM][HSO4] based low temperature esterification were conducted at 298.15 K and 1 atm. 80.96% of n-BuAc was achieved.

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