The phase behavior of a binary mixture consisting of a supercritical fluid and an imidazolium-based ionic liquid was studied experimentally. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([hmim][BF 4 ]) were the selected supercritical fluid and ionic liquid (IL), respectively. A synthetic method was used to measure the phase behavior of the binary system CO 2 + [hmim][BF 4 ]. Bubble-point pressures of this binary mixture were reported for CO 2 concentrations ranging from (10.3 up to 70.3) mol % and within a temperature range of (293.18 to 368.16) K. The experimental results obtained in this work were compared with the available phase behavior data of the binary system CO 2 + 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([hmim][PF 6 ]) to investigate the effect of the anion group on the phase behavior of this type of system. The three-phase liquid-liquid-vapor (LLV) equilibrium of this system was also measured. On the basis of the LLV measurements, the type of fluid phase behavior of this system most likely will be type III according to the classification of Scott and Van Konynenburg. The CO 2 + [hmim][BF 4 ] binary system has a two-phase liquid-vapor region extending up to very high pressures.

In this paper the anti-solvency behavior of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) as a way to recover an organic compound from an ionic liquid by crystallization is explored. As an example, the conditions for crystallization of the organic compound methyl-(Z)-a-acetamido cinnamate (MAAC) from the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([bmim + ][BF 4 − ]) using supercritical CO 2 as anti-solvent are studied experimentally by measuring the phase behavior of the ternary system [bmim + ][BF 4 − ] + CO 2 + MAAC. MAAC can be recovered from [bmim + ][BF 4 − ] by either using a shift to higher CO 2 concentrations at constant temperature (anti-solvent crystallization) or by using a shift to lower temperatures at constant CO 2 concentration (thermal shift).

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