Melting temperature depression caused by high pressure gases. Effect of the gas on organic substances and on ionic liquids

The effect on the melting temperature depression (MTD) of organic substances and ionic liquids caused by different types of pressurizing gases is analyzed. A high pressure gas produces a combined effect between solubility and pressure that causes the melting temperature to decrease. The authors have previously used phase equilibrium relations to correlate MTD of organic substances and ionic liquids under high pressure carbon dioxide, but other gases were not considered. The Peng–Robinson equation of state with the Wong–Sandler mixing rules showed to be appropriate for correlating the phase equilibrium in these high pressurized systems and is the model used is in this work. Three organic substances (naphthalene, biphenyl and octacosane) under high pressure produced by three gases (ethane, ethylene and carbon dioxide) for which experimental data on MTD are available were considered in this study. Then extension to an ionic liquid under high pressure carbon dioxide and high pressure ethylene was done. The proposed thermodynamic method and the model used show to have the necessary flexibility to acceptably correlate the MTD produced in these systems.