Abstract:
Conventional and functional imidazole-based ionic liquids (abbr. ILs) were mixed based on their advantage and disadvantage on CO
2 reduction. Additionally, CO
2 absorption effect and regeneration performance of imidazole-based IL mixtures were discussed. It was showed that imidazole-based IL mixtures had good fluidity and smooth of transferring CO
2. It had better absorption capacity of CO
2 for the mixtures of bmimBF
4 (or bmimTf
2N) and NH
2e-mimBF
4 than the single IL, and lower absorption capacity for the mixtures of bmimCH
3CO
2 and NH
2e-mimBF
4 than bmimCH
3CO
2. While the cation of conventional imidazolium ILs became longer and the mixtures could absorb CO
2 more obviously, more strong effect was shown on CO
2 absorption with the anion Tf
2N than the anion BF
4 for the conventional imidazolium IL. CO
2 absorption capacity of the imidazole-based IL mixtures had maintained 75%~85% of the initial capacity during 10 times of the absorption/regeneration cycles, while the quality of the regeneration was unchanged.