Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat source machine that can reduce the environmental load and can output the thermal energy with high temperature, and a method for operating the heat source machine. A heat source machine of the present invention includes a centrifugal compressor, condensers, expansion valves, and an evaporator, in which a refrigerant enclosed in a refrigerant circulation circuit configured by sequentially connecting the centrifugal compressor, the condensers, the expansion valves, and the evaporator contains a composition A, a composition B, or a composition C, the composition A has 4 or 5 carbon atoms, 6 or more fluorine atoms, and one or more oxygen atoms, the composition B has 4 or 5 carbon atoms and 6 or more fluorine atoms, the composition C has 3 carbon atoms, 2 chlorine atoms, 3 fluorine atoms, and an intramolecular double bond, and the composition A, the composition B, or the composition C has a boiling point of 20° C. or more and a critical temperature of 180° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ionic liquid or plastic crystal comprising an anion and a cation, the anion comprising [C(SO2F)3]?, and the cation comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ([EMI]+), N,N-diethyl-N-methyl-(2-methoxyethyl)ammonium ([DEME]+), N-methyl-N-propylpyrrolidinium ([Py13]+), N-methyl-N-propylpiperidinium ([PP13]+), tetramethylammonium ([N1111]+), tetraethylammonium ([N2222]+), trimethylhexylammonium ([N6111]+), triethylhexylammonium ([N6222]+), N-methyl-ethylpyrrolidinium ([Py12]+), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium ([C4mim]+), and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium ([C6mim]+).

Abstract: An object is to provide a method for producing 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene with high efficiency, which is suitable for a flow reaction, and cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene can be efficiently obtained when isomerization of hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene is conducted using a catalyst and the resultant mixture is successively subjected to catalytic hydrogenation to produce cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene, wherein the whole process is performed by a flow catalytic reaction.