Ionic liquids (ILs) show great potential for the treatment
of dichloromethane
(DCM)-containing waste gases, but currently there are limited data
on the vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) of DCM + IL systems.
This work uses headspace gas chromatography (HS-GC) to determine the
isothermal VLE data of the DCM + [Epy][EtSO4] and DCM +
[Emim][EtSO4] systems at 308.15 K, 313.15 K, 318.15 K,
323.15 K, and 328.15 K. The nonrandom two-liquid (NRTL) and universal
quasi-chemical correlation activity coefficient (UNIQUAC) models are
used to regress the VLE data. The results show that the fitting average
relative deviations (ARDs) of the DCM + [Epy][EtSO4] and
DCM + [Emim][EtSO4] systems to the NRTL model were 6.97%
and 7.95% and the fitting ARDs to the UNIQUAC model were 6.10% and
6.28%, respectively. The fitting effects of the UNIQUAC models for
both systems were better than those of the NRTL model. With the models,
the calculated activity coefficients of DCM were all less than 1,
indicating that the solutions exhibited negative deviations from Raoult’s
law, and the nonideality of the solutions increased with increasing
IL concentration.