The CO 2 solubility data in the ionic liquid (IL) 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethyl sulfonyl)imide, methanol (MeOH), and their mixture with different combinations at temperatures of 313.2, 333.2, and 353.2 K and pressures up to 6.50 MPa were measured experimentally. New group binary interaction parameters of the predictive universal quasichemical functional-group activity coefficient (UNIFAC)-Lei model, which has been continually advanced by our group, were introduced by correlating the experimental data of this work and the literature. The consistency between experimental data and predicted results proves the reliability of UNIFAC-Lei model for CO 2 -IL-organic solvent systems. The newly obtained parameters were incorporated into the UNIFAC property model of Aspen Plus software to optimize a conceptual process developed for the purification of a CO 2 -containing gas stream. The simulation results indicate that the use of IL either mixed with MeOH or purely considerably lowers the process power consumption and improves the process performance in terms of CO 2 capture rate and solvent loss. ðx 1 Þ n 5Fðm 1 ; m 2 ; m 3 ; m 4 ; m 5 Þ (1) Figure 2. Flow sheet of the CO 2 capture processes developed in this work.Lines, predicted results by the UNIFAC-Lei model; scattered points, experimental data. ( ) pure [AMIM] 1 [Tf 2 N] 2 ; ( ) 80 wt % [AMIM] 1 [Tf 2 N] 2 1 20 wt % MeOH; ( ) 50 wt % [AMIM] 1 [Tf 2 N] 2 1 50 wt % MeOH; ( ) 20 wt % [AMIM] 1 [Tf 2 N] 2 1 80 wt % MeOH; ( ) pure MeOH. [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]