Browsing by Author "Quinteros-Lama, Héctor"

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    Assessing Thermodynamics Models for Phase Equilibria and Interfacial Properties Relevant to the Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide
    (American Chemical Society, 2024) Cea-Klapp, Esteban; González-Barramuño, Bastián; Gajardo-Parra, Nicolás F.; Karelovic, Alejandro; Quinteros-Lama, Héctor; Canales, Roberto I.; Garrido, José Matías
    © 2024 American Chemical Society.The catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide has become a novel technology of economic and environmental interest that allows the production of value-added products as energy alternatives to the current demand. As product distributions are highly dependent on process conditions such as reaction temperature, pressure, and H2/CO2 ratio, it is necessary to have reliable thermodynamic models that can characterize mixtures of reactants with products over a wide range of conditions. In this contribution, the accuracy of two hydrogen models applied through equations of state (EOS) framed within variations of the statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT) is compared. These models include perturbed-chain SAFT (PC-SAFT) EOS and SAFT of variable range and Mie potential (SAFT-VR Mie) EOS. This is accomplished by the depiction of the thermodynamic behavior of mixtures of hydrogen in the context of the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide, estimating the thermodynamic behavior of the relevant mixtures. In all of the cases, zero values for the binary adjustable parameters have been implemented, and both models of hydrogen were fitted from a hydrogen+decane mixture. Available experimental data of high-pressure phase equilibria, critical loci, and interfacial tensions is used to determine the accuracy of the hydrogen models by contrasting their respective predictive capabilities, determining that the overall performance of the one applied in the SAFT-VR Mie EOS is inferior compared to the PC-SAFT one. The average absolute deviations between model calculations and experimental data for vapor-liquid equilibrium are 35.8 % (pressure), 3.10 % (liquid composition), and 2.60 % (vapor composition) for PC-SAFT, and 26.3, 3.27, and 2.65% for SAFT-VR Mie, respectively.
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    Unveiling Molecular Features Controlling the Solubility of Hydrofluorocarbons in Fluorine-Based Eutectic Solvents
    (2025) González-Barramuño, Bastián; Cea-Klapp, Esteban; Gajardo Parra, Nicolás Felipe; Canales Muñoz, Roberto; Quinteros-Lama, Héctor; Garrido, José Matías
    This work investigates the solubility and solvation mechanisms of fluorinated refrigerant gases in fluorine-based deep eutectic solvents (FESs) using COSMO-RS and molecular dynamics simulations. Three FESs based on perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPA) as a hydrogen bond donor were evaluated to understand how ionic and molecular hydrogen-bond acceptors influence the absorption of HFCs (R125, R134a, and R32). The molecular models were validated through computed densities and activity-coefficient-based thermodynamics, confirming their liquid behavior. Structural and energetic analyses, including distribution functions and free-energy perturbation, show that the solubility is driven by synergistic fluorinated dispersion interactions, ionic polarization, and PFPA self-association. These specific interactions between PFPA fluorinated domains and ionic species define the eutectic network and govern HFC uptake, providing a rational basis for designing advanced fluorinated solvents for refrigerant recovery in a circular economy context.