ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
- Acquisition of skills in the identification of ionic liquids: formulation and nomenclature.
- Critical analysis of their advantageous properties as compared to traditional solvents.
- Knowledge of the main processes based on ionic liquids and their degree of development.
- Use of knowledge, previously acquired or new, in the design and simulation of processes (by means of computer tools) based on the use of ionic liquids.
Unit 1. Introduction.
Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. Sustainability. Ionic liquids: definition, attractiveness, origins, historical evolution.
Unit 2. Ionic liquids: categories, properties and production.
Cations and anions in ionic liquids. Classes of ionic liquids. 'Designer solvents’. Physical, chemical, and biological properties. Databases. Production of ionic liquids.
Unit 3. Electrochemistry with ionic liquids.
Storage of energy. Electrochemistry and batteries.
Unit 4. Ionic liquids as solvents (and catalysts) in reactions.
Organic reactions with ionic liquids. Catalysis and biocatalysis.
Unit 5. Ionic liquids in separation processes.
Distillation. Absorption. Extraction. Aqueous biphasic systems. Liquid membranes. Dissolution and fractionation of biomass.
Unit 6. Materials based in ionic liquid technology.
Synthesis of materials. Nanotechnology. Surface technology.
Unit 7. Bio-ionic liquids.
Ionic liquids with a biological property as a primary design criterion. Antimicrobial activity. Pharmaceutical compounds and others.
Basic bibliography:
- M. Freemantle. An Introduction to Ionic Liquids. RCS Publishing, Cambridge (UK), 2010. ISBN 978-1-84755-161-0.
- M. B. Shiflett (Ed.). Commercial Applications of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-35244-8.
Complementary bibliography (on-line resources):
- S. T. Handy (Ed.). Ionic Liquids-Classes and Properties. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-634-8.
- S. T. Handy (Ed.). Applications of Ionic Liquids in Science and Technology. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-605-8.
- J. I. Kadokawa (Ed.). Ionic Liquids-New Aspects for the Future. InTech, Croatia, 2013. ISBN 978-953-51-0937-2.
- A. Kokorin (Ed.). Ionic Liquids: Applications and Perspectives. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-248-7.
- A. Kokorin (Ed.). Ionic Liquids: Theory, Properties, New Approaches. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-349-1.
(See the Memory of the Master’s Degree for interpretation of the coding.)
Basic and general skills: CB6, CB9, CG1, CG6, CG15.
Specific skills: CE3, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE11.
Transferable skills: CT2, CT6.
The methodology of the equivalent course in the new curriculum, which offers face-to-face teaching, will be followed:
P4142205 - Ionic liquids in chemical processes and bioprocesses
The assessment system of the equivalent course in the new curriculum, which offers face-to-face teaching, will be followed:
P4142205 - Ionic liquids in chemical processes and bioprocesses
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Ana Maria Soto Campos
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816760
- ana.soto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Hector Rodriguez Martinez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816804
- hector.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer