Phase Equilibria in Ionic Liquid Facilitated Liquid-Liquid Extractions

Anand Bharti is currently a Research Scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, IndiaDebashis Kundu is currently a Research Scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, IndiaDharamashi Rabari is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, IndiaTamal Banerjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

• 1. Introduction2. Liquid-liquid Equilibria: Experiments and Predictions by Gibb’s free energy models3. COSMO-SAC: A predictive model for calculating thermodynamic properties on a-priori basis4. Application of COSMO-SAC in complex phase behavior: Vapor-Liquid-Liquid Equilibria5. Modification in COSMO-SAC6. Particle Swarm Optimization and application to LLE7. Cuckoo Search Optimization and application to LLE