Reconcentrating the Ionic Liquid EMIM-HSO

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mark J WongDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, 600 Dan Reneau Drive, P.O. Box 10348, Ruston, LA 71272, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-0671-7324

Viral SagarDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, 600 Dan Reneau Drive, P.O. Box 10348, Ruston, LA 71272, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7029-5586

Joan G LynamDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, 600 Dan Reneau Drive, P.O. Box 10348, Ruston, LA 71272, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0528-9619

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NASA LEQSF(2020-24)-LaSPACE

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adequate water supplies are crucial for missions to the Moon, since water is essential for astronauts' health. Ionic liquids (ILs) have been investigated for processing metal oxides, the main components of lunar regolith, to separate oxygen and metals. The IL must be diluted in the process. Recycling this diluted IL post-processing is important to reduce the materials required in resupply missions. In addition, water will be needed in lunar greenhouses for growing food and aiding in sustaining a habitable environment. Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is a new technology for water purification that was examined in this study for its feasibility to concentrate IL. Hydrophobic membranes composed of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and polyvinylidene (PVDF) were found to hold promise in separating solutes from water to concentrate a diluted IL solution and to recover water. A bench-scale DCMD system was employed to test this method at temperatures of 50 °C, 65 °C, and 80 °C. Hence, the benefits and limitations of DCMD with PTFE and PVDF membranes were explored for the aqueous IL 1-ethyl-3 methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate for DCMD performed at different temperatures.

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1-ethyl-3 methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfateconductivityDCMDpolytetrafluoroethylenepolyvinylideneUV-vis

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PMID39860081

DOI10.3390/molecules30020211

PMCPMC11768014

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