“…The latter approach is the most common separation technique recently employed in petrochemical industries [3]. Despite its broad application, the toxic and volatile nature of the employed solvents such as sulfolane [1,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11], glycols [12,13] and propylene carbonate [14] as well as the high cost of solvent recovery, makes researchers to seek for other possible solvents. One of the potential candidates to supersede conventional organic solvents is ionic liquid.…”