SWITCHABLE HYDROPHILICITY SOLVENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF

• Main Authors: RESENDES, RUI, WECHSLER, DOMINIK, JESSOP, PHILIP, G, PHAN, LAM, N, CARRIER, ANDREW, J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 05.05.2011
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; APPARATUS THEREFOR; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FUELS; GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MINERAL WAXES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; SEPARATION; SPIRITS; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; VINEGAR; WINE; WORKING-UP

A solvent that reversibly converts from a hydrophobic liquid form to hydrophilic liquid form upon contact with water and a selected trigger, e.g., contact with CO2, is described. The hydrophilic liquid form is readily converted back to the hydrophobic liquid form and water. The hydrophobic liquid is...