This Radical Innovation Sprint project aims at developing new hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (DES) for removal of heavy metal ions from produced water.
These solvents will be made of natural components. The project will find pairs of hydrogen bond donor and hydrogen bond acceptor to form new hydrophobic DES, their thermophysical properties will be evaluated to assess the feasibility of use for liquid-liquid extraction of metal ions from water solution.
Finally, the separation efficiency will be tested.