Abstract
The removal of heteroaromatic nitrogen and sulfur impurities from a model oil through extraction with ionic liquids (ILs) containing metal salts was performed in view of the purification of fuel feeds. Chloride and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide salts of Cu+, Cu2+ and Fe3+ were used. The systems based on ILs and metal compounds were applied both in batch-like liquid–liquid and continuous flow liquid–solid conditions. In a first phase, liquid–liquid biphasic extraction was used to choose the most adequate IL classes; the suitable systems were immobilized on a solid support to form metal-containing supported ionic liquid phases (SILPs). In a next phase, these SILPs were applied in breakthrough experiments. A selective extraction of N-compounds was achieved with metal-containing ionic liquids, in both liquid–liquid and liquid–solid conditions. The breakthrough experiments using Cu(NTf2)2− and FeCl4−-containing [BMIM][NTf2] SILPs immobilized on hierarchically structured silica monoliths resulted in an efficient separation of all the nitrogen compounds from the other impurities in the model oil.
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