Critical Properties and Normal Boiling Temperature of Ionic Liquids. Update and a New Consistency Test

The group contribution method proposed by Valderrama and Robles in 2007 and extended by Valderrama and Rojas in 2009 to estimate the critical properties of ionic liquids is revised and an additional test for determining the consistency of the estimated properties is proposed. The new testing method includes the calculation of the saturation pressure at the normal boiling temperature using an equation of state and an accurate model to represent the temperature function of the attractive term in the equation of state. In determining the vapor pressure, the critical temperature, the critical pressure, the critical volume, and the acentric factor determined by group contribution are included. The proposed method complements the previous density test of the authors that tested the critical temperature, the critical volume, and the normal boiling temperature only. A total of 1130 ionic liquids are considered in this work, and double checking, using the density and the normal vapor pressure, is applied. Also, a spreadsheet file that allows any reader to calculate and check the critical properties of other ionic liquids containing any of the 44 groups defined by the method is provided.