Novel molecular descriptors for prediction of H2S solubility in ionic liquids

Novel molecular descriptors for prediction of H2S solubility in ionic liquids

Accepted Manuscript Novel molecular descriptors for prediction of H2S solubility in ionic liquids Xuejing Kang, Jianguo Qian, Jing Deng, Ullah Latif,...

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Accepted Manuscript Novel molecular descriptors for prediction of H2S solubility in ionic liquids

Xuejing Kang, Jianguo Qian, Jing Deng, Ullah Latif, Yongsheng Zhao PII: DOI: Reference:

S0167-7322(17)35098-5 doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2018.06.113 MOLLIQ 9311

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Journal of Molecular Liquids

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26 October 2017 3 May 2018 27 June 2018

Please cite this article as: Xuejing Kang, Jianguo Qian, Jing Deng, Ullah Latif, Yongsheng Zhao , Novel molecular descriptors for prediction of H2S solubility in ionic liquids. Molliq (2018), doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2018.06.113

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Novel molecular descriptors for prediction of H2S solubility in ionic liquids Xuejing Kang a,b,1, Jianguo Qianc,1, Jing Dengd, Ullah Latifc, Yongsheng Zhaoa,e a

Key Laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of Ministry of Education, Department of

College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University of light industry, Zhengzhou 450002, China

Department Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Key Laboratory of

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Micro/Nano-electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems,

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Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,

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Trondheim 7491, Norway Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California

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Abstract: Molecular descriptors are very important input parameters for establishing properties prediction models of materials, such as ionic liquids (ILs). In this work, as a new class of

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molecular descriptors, namely, electrostatic potential surface (SEP) is proposed to predict one of the important representative properties of ILs, i.e. the H2S solubility in ILs. 1318 experimental

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data points of 28 ILs, including 7 cations and 12 anions covering diverse temperatures and pressures, have been gathered from 15 references. According to the qualitative analyses, it is found that anions play a more important role than cations for the H2S solubility in ILs, besides the anions with stronger hydrogen-bond basicity have higher capacities to absorb H2S. Combining the SEP descriptors with the extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithm, two new



Corresponding author. Fax: +1 805-837-4996 E-mail addresses: [email protected] 1 The authors contributed equally. 1

ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT quantitative models (ELM1 based on the isolated ions and ELM2 based on the ion pairs) for predicting H2S solubility are established. The average absolute relative deviation (AARD%) for the total set of ELM1 and ELM2 models are 5.87% and 3.84%, respectively. The results indicate that the SEP descriptors can extensively be employed to predict properties of ILs due to

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Keywords: Molecular descriptors; Ionic liquids; H2S; Extreme learning machine; Model

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ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 1. Introduction The electrostatic potential[1-3] V(r) is produced at the point r around a molecule, via its nuclear and electrons, i.e. it is calculated by the static distribution of a molecule. The molecular electrostatic potential is rigorously expressed by Eq. (1)

  r ' dr ' ZA  rA  r r ' r

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represents the electronic density function for molecule. As

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between nucleus A and r,

rA  r stands for the distance

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where ZA denotes the charge of the nuclear A, located at rA,

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V r   

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can be seen from Eq. (1), the electrostatic potential is composed of two parts, the contributions of the nuclei (positive) and electrons (negative), respectively. The electrostatic potential surface

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(SEP) of molecules, which means the molecular surface areas in the interval of different electrostatic potential, can show the rich information at electron level and therefore it could be

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expected to use them as descriptors to precisely predict properties of materials under investigation.

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Benefiting from the excellent properties (e.g. high thermal stability, high solubility, low melting point, generally negligible flammability and almost null volatility)[4-7], ionic liquids

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(ILs) have gained great attentions due to their versatile applications, ranging from chemical industries[8, 9], such as reaction media in organic synthesis, catalysis, controlled processing of polymer materials[10], extraction processes[11], and broad range of electrolytes in electrochemical sector[12]. Owning to its nonvolatility and excellent capacity, ILs have also been employed to capture poisonous acid gases[13-20] as an environment-friendly absorptive solvents by many researchers. Particularly, ILs have been successfully used to absorb toxic hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas since early 2007[21, 22]. However, due to the tremendous number 3

ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT of existing and potential ILs (vastly numerous combinations of existing cations and anions), the time-consuming and hazardous during experimental measurements is out of question, and there is a very urgent need to construct efficiently predictive models to predict the H2S solubility in ILs.

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Some predictive models have been established for calculating the H2S solubility in ILs by

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applying the intelligence algorithms[23-26], equation of state (EOS)[27, 28], and conductor-

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like screening model for real solvents (COSMO-RS) method[29]. Among them, the predictive models using the intelligent algorithm show stronger capabilities to offer better precision.

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Ahmadi and his co-workers[23] employed temperature (T), pressure (P), critical temperature

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(Tc), critical pressure (Pc), and acentric factor (ω) of ILs as input parameters to build artificial neural network (ANN) models, meanwhile, they also utilized the same input parameters to

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construct the gene-expression programming (GEP) and least-squares support vector machine

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(LSSVM) models[24, 25] for predicting the H2S solubility in ILs, and obtained comparatively better outcomes. In our previous study[30], temperature (T) and pressure (P) combining with

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the number of groups for each IL were used as input parameters to develop the predictive

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models by extreme learning machine (ELM) approach, however; the shortcomings of these models are that that groups are not sufficiently rich in molecular information and their isomeric molecules cannot be effectively identified. Compared with the algorithm, molecular descriptors have greater influence on the precision of the model. Therefore, we intend to propose new kinds of molecular descriptors (SEP) which have abundant information at electron level to build models for prediction for H2S solubility in ILs. In the present study, at first, we optimized the structures of individual cations and anions 4

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2. Data and molecular descriptors

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2.1. Data preparation

In order to establish the models to calculate the H2S solubility in ILs, 1318 data points in

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28 various ILs, including 7 cations and 12 anions, were collected from 15 references. The type

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of ILs used, number of data points, H2S solubility values, as well as pressure and temperature range and the corresponding references, are listed in Table 1. The experimental dataset for the

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model establishment was randomly divided into training subset including 1055 data points and

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test subset containing 263 data points. The data of training subset was utilized to train and build different models, while the test data subset was applied to identity the performance of the

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Table 1. Temperature, pressure, and H2S solubility range as well as AARD %* of the ILs used

No. of ILs

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[BMIM][MeSO4]

298.1

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0.022-0.521

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299.15

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0.03

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99.39

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[EMIM][OAc]

293.15-333.15

0.014-3.248

0.0917-0.5103

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5.94

6.09

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[EMIM][Pro]

293.15-333.15

0.011-3.239

0.1206-0.5897

62

7.58

7.63

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[EMIM][Lac]

293.15-333.15

0.044-3.216

0.0759-0.4898

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2.4

2.39

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[BMIM][OAc]

293.15-333.15

0.001-3.415

0.0740-0.5790

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10.98

11.1

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[HMIM][OAc]

293.15-333.15

0.003-3.309

0.0900-0.6094

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7.03

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[BMIM][PF6]

298.15-403.15

0.69-96.30

0.016-0.875

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3.66

3.22

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303.15-333.15

1.23-10.11

0.044-0.405

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4.84

3.42

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[BMIM][BF4]

303.15-343.15

0.61-8.36

0.03-0.354

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5.58

3.34

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[BMIM][Tf2N]

303.15-343.15

0.94-9.16

0.051-0.51

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1.88

1.84

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[HMIM][Tf2N]

303.15-353.15

0.69-20.17

0.0368-0.7012

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5.95

5.86

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303.15-343.15

0.97-10.50

0.029-0.533

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17.54

17.35

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[HMIM][BF4]

303.15-343.15

1.11-11.0

0.06-0.499

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12.46

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[HMIM][PF6]

303.15-343.15

1.38-10.9

0.05-0.441

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15.48

2.71

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[BMIM][EtSO4]

303.15-353.15

1.14-12.70

0.012-0.118

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4.86

5.6

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[EMIM][Tf2N]

303.15-353.15

1.08-16.86

0.049-0.609

42

0.9

2.13

[38]

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[OMIM][Tf2N]

303.15-353.15

0.94-19.12

0.063-0.7355

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1.31

1.4

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[OMIM][PF6]

303.15-353.15

0.85-19.58

0.0463-0.6972

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1.31

1.2

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[HEMIM][BF4]

303.15-353.15

1.21-10.66

0.02-0.247

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15.54

1.56

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[HEMIM][PF6]

303.15-353.15

1.34-16.85

0.0347-0.4627

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12.24

1.17

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[HEMIM][Tf2N]

303.15-353.15

1.56-18.32

0.0576-0.5724

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2.41

1.44

[40]

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[HEMIM][TfO]

303.15-353.15

1.06-18.39

0.0357-0.5483

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2.38

1.35

[40]

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[EMIM][TPTP]

303.15-353.15

0.582-19.415

0.0220-0.5926

79

1.33

0.94

[15]

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[EMIM][TfO]

303.15-353.15

0.0643-24.553

0.0452-0.5672

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3.15

2.25

[41]

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[MEDAH][OAc]

303.2-333.2

0.097-1.396

0.0095-0.1618

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2.2

1.87

[42]

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[MEDAH][For]

303.2-333.2

0.079-1.242

0.0061-0.0807

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4.81

4.3

[42]

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[DMEAH][OAc]

303.2-333.2

0.031-1.111

0.0104-0.2085

53

5.27

2.55

[42]

27

[DMEAH][For]

303.2-333.2

0.058-1.153

0.0065-0.1189

41

5.54

2.55

[42]

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[EMIM][PF6]

333.15-363.15

1.45-19.33

0.032-0.359

40

1.62

1.4

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*AARD: average absolute relative deviation

2.2. Determination of the molecular descriptors

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B3LYP/6-31G* level, which was followed by full geometry optimization at the B3LYP/631++G** level. The vibration frequency and energy of those anions and cations were calculated to confirm the local minimal energy points without imaginary frequency. Since the individual cations and anions ignore the corresponding opposite charge during optimization, the ion-pairs of 28 ILs were optimized. On the basis of optimal configurations, the Multiwfn software[44] was used to calculate the SEP of the isolated ions and ion pairs of ILs, and the SEP values were presented by different colors on their surfaces. Figure 1 shows the SEP of 28 ILs (ion pairs) 6

ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT employed in this work, and the SEP of anions and cations for 28 ILs can be found in supporting information. It should be noted that the molecular surface is generally van der Waals surface defined by Bader[3, 45], which is the surface at the electron density of 0.001 e/Bohr3. The ranges of calculated electrostatic potential are 0~200 kcal/mol for cations, -200~0 kcal/mol for

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anions and -60~60 kcal/mol for ion pairs, respectively, and the step size was set at 0.5 kcal/mol.

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For convenience, we used the intermediate value to stand for the SEP of each step. For instance,

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SEP0.25 represents the electrostatic potential surface areas in the range of 0~0.5 kcal/mol. Three representative SEP of [BMIM]+, [BF4]-, and [BMIM][BF4] are shown in Figure 2 (a), (b) and (c),

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respectively. As can be seen from Figure 2(a), the surface of [BMIM]+ is blue due to the

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electrostatic potentials upon it is over 40 kcal/mol. In contrast, the electrostatic potentials of [BF4]- are below -115kcal/mol leading to a red surface. It can also be observed that the

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cation and anion.

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Figure 1. Electrostatic potential surface mapped electron total density with an isovalue 0.001 e/Bohr3 of the 28 optimized ILs

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3.1. Extreme learning machine (ELM)

ELM, which is a single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs) learning

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algorithm, was firstly proposed by Huang et al. in 2004[46] aiming to make the calculations valid, simple and efficient. Traditional neural network learning algorithms (such as BP

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algorithm) have to set manually a large number of network training parameters and easily produce local optimal solutions. In contrast, the ELM only needs the number of hidden nodes in the network to obtain the optimal solution. Thus, the huge work, including adjusting the input weights and hidden biases of the network in the process of algorithm implementation, could be abandoned, while the optimal solution will be obtained. As a result, the time needed to develop an ELM model is significantly reduced without sacrificing the good generalization performance. Independent variables, hidden neurons, and dependent variables are the three units of the 10

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function, and the function from hidden neurons to dependent variables is the linear function.

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The parameters ωij and bias between the input and hidden layers are generated at random, and

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Figure 3. ELM network structure in this study for the prediction of H2S solubility in ILs

3.2. Model validation and performance Following are the statistical parameters including absolute relative deviation (ARD %), the coefficient of determination (R2), average absolute relative deviation (AARD %), meansquare error (MSE) and root-mean-square error (RMSE), were employed to estimate the performance of the established ELM models. The equations of these statistical parameters are 11

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ARD (%)  100( yical / yiexp 1.0)





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ym denotes the average

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experimental values of the H2S solubility in ILs. Np is the number of experimental data points

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4. Result and discussion

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4.1 Qualitative analysis of the H2S solubility in ILs To qualitatively analyze the effect of isolated anions and cations of ILs, a simple model was established based on the collected 1318 data points of 28 ILs including 7 cations and 12 anions. The vital descriptors for the H2S solubility in ILs were screened from SEP parameters of isolated cations and anions combined with temperature and pressure by using stepwise regression linear algorithm. Finally, 10 parameters were selected as the linear model input parameters, as shown in Equation 7: 12

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y  0.018P  0.003T  0.232SA-141.25  0.194SC81.75  0.308SA-52.25  0.056SA-62.75 0.53SA-103.25  0.091SC107.25  0.52SA-102.75  0.068SC108.25 1.210

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(n=1318, R2=0.737, AARD %=130.87%) where y denotes the H2S solubility in ILs, P represents pressure, and T stands for temperature.

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and the H2S solubility in ILs. In addition, the order of the parameters is descending in

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accordance with the t value which stands for the importance of the parameter for the H2S

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solubility in ILs. This means the first descriptor P has the most vital influence on the H2S solubility in ILs. The positive coefficient in front of it suggests that the H2S solubility in ILs

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increases with pressure. Thus the following T is the second important descriptor for the H2S solubility in ILs, which shows a negative correlation between them, i.e. H2S solubility in ILs

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decreases with increasing temperature. It can be observed that five SEP descriptors of anion, which are SA-141.25, SA-52.25, SA-62.75, SA-103.25, and SA-102.75, have important impact on the H2S

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solubility in ILs. Among them, the SA-141.25, SA-62.75, and SA-102.75 have positive correlations with H2S solubility in ILs, while SA-52.25 and SA-103.25 have negative correlations. Moreover, SC81.75,

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SC107.25 and SC108.25 belong to cations, which are the 4th, 8th, and 10th important descriptors, respectively. Therefore, it could be concluded that anions are more important than cations for the H2S solubility in ILs. It is worth mentioning that the most important SEP descriptor (SA-141.25) belongs to the anions of [OAc]-, [Pro]-, [Lac]-, [For]-, which are considered to have strong hydrogen-bond basicity. It could be speculated that the anions with strong hydrogen-bond basicity may have a stronger hydrogen-bonding with H2S, thus the corresponding IL will have higher H2S solubility. The results are in agreement with our previous work[47]. Although the 13

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solubility in ILs.

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independent variables and H2S solubility in ILs as dependent variables to build an ELM model. The test set and training set used in this work occupy 20% (263 data points) and 80% (1055

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data points) data points in datasheet, respectively. The activation function between the independent variables and hidden neurons is the sine function, and the function from hidden

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neurons to dependent variables is the linear function as mentioned above. Then it is required to achieve the optimal number of neurons between independent variables and hidden neurons. As

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can be seen from Figure 4, for the training set, the R2 values are almost steady, and AARD% decreases slightly with the rising number of neurons; however; for test set values the R2 reduces

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sharply and AARD% rises considerably when the number of neurons is over 400. As a result, the optimized number (400) of neurons is confirmed and the ELM model (here we call it ELM1 model) is obtained at the same time.

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The calculated H2S solubility versus experimental data in ILs of the ELM1 model is shown in Figure 5. It can be seen that the calculated values agree well with the experimental values.

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The R2 and AARD% for the total set are 0.991 and 5.87%, respectively. The detailed information about ELM1 model has been listed in Table 2. This table shows that R2 and AARD%

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values are 0.994 and 5.68% for the training set, and 0.979 and 6.64% for the test set, respectively. The percent of the calculated values in different ARD% range for the ELM1 model are displayed

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in Figure 6. It can be seen that the ARD% of the predictive values distributed within 5% accounts for 69.43%, and the ARD% over 20% accounts for only 5.24%. These results indicate that this model provides good accuracy and dependence to estimate the H2S solubility values in ILs. In addition, the training time for the ELM1 model was 4.2716 seconds on an Intel 1.9GHz laptop computer with 4 GB of RAM.

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Figure 6. Percent of value in different ARD% range of the ELM1 model

Data set Training set Test set Total set

Table 2. The statistical parameters for the ELM1 model. No. R2 AARD % MSE 1055 0.994 5.68 1.86 E-04 263 0.979 6.64 6.29 E-04 1318 0.991 5.87 2.74 E-04

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4.3 ELM2 model based on the SEP of ILs (ion pairs) As mentioned above, the SEP descriptors of isolated cation and anion ignore the

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include: P, T and SA-47.75, SA-6.25, SA-15.25, SA-25.75, SC14.75, SC34.25 of ion pairs (the order of

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parameters also represents the importance for the H2S solubility in ILs). The employed

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data in ILs of the training and test subsets for the ELM2 model. It illustrates that the calculated

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data points of H2S solubility in [HEMIM][Tf2N] is shown in Figure 8. The estimated and

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experimental values are in good agreement. The percentages of predictive values in different ARD% range of the ELM2 model are depicted in Figure 9. It can be seen that 82.5% of ELM2

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Acknowledgement

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We are grateful for the financial support provided by the China Postdoctoral Science

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1318 experimental data points for 28 ILs were collected from 15 references.



Extreme learning machine algorithm was employed to develop predictive models.



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