Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Important Developments in the History of Ionic Liquids
from Academic Curiosity to Commercial Processes
and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Mark B. Shiflett, Joe W. Magee and Dirk Tuma
Part II Ionic Liquid Processes
2 ISOALKY
™ Technology: Next-Generation Alkylate Gasoline
Manufacturing Process Technology Using Ionic
Liquid Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Hye Kyung Timken, Huping Luo, Bong-Kyu Chang, Elizabeth Carter
and Matthew Cole
3 Continuous Catalytic Processes with Supported Ionic Liquid
Phase (SILP) Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Marco Haumann
4 Are Ionic Liquids Enabling Technology? Startup to Scale-Up
to Find Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Julia L. Shamshina and Robin D. Rogers
5 Commercial Aspects of Biomass Deconstruction with Ionic
Liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Aida R. Abouelela, Florence V. Gschwend, Francisco Malaret
and Jason P. Hallett
Part III Ionic Liquid Products
6 Gas Chromatography Columns Using Ionic Liquids
as Stationary Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Mohsen Talebi, Rahul A. Patil and Daniel W. Armstrong
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