Thermodynamics Research Center / ThermoML | Fluid Phase Equilibria

ABSTRACT

Isobaric vapor liquid equilibrium (VLE) data were measured for the binary mixtures of acetic acid +methyl propionate, propionic acid +methyl acetate, propionic acid +methyl propionate, and methyl propionate +methyl acetate in a temperature range of 330.05 413.15K at 101.3 kPa. Isothermal vapor liquid liquid equilibrium (VLLE) data were also measured for water +methyl acetate +methyl propionate over a pressure range of 43.7 157.0 kPa at 323.24 and 343.15 K. The NRTL-HOC and the UNIQUAC-HOC models with the model parameters determined from the phase equilibrium data of the constituent binaries were applied to predict the VLLE properties for water +methyl acetate +methyl propionate. The validity of the prediction from the UNIFAC-HOC and the UNIFAC-Lyngby-HOC was also tested with the ternary VLLE data. Additionally, the best-fitted values of the six binary parameters of the UNIQUAC-HOC were determined, simultaneously, from the isothermal VLLE ternary data as well.