Thermodynamics Research Center / ThermoML | Fluid Phase Equilibria

ABSTRACT

Vapor pressures of isopropyl propionate and isobaric vapor liquid equilibrium (VLE) properties of isopropyl propionate + isopropanol and propionic acid + isopropyl propionate were measured. Isothermal vapor liquid liquid equilibrium (VLLE) data were also determined experimentally for water + isopropyl propionate and water + isopropyl propionate + isopropanol at temperatures from 323.24 K to 373.15 K. The binary VLE and VLLE data can be correlated well with the NRTL-HOC and the UNIQUAC-HOC models. The ternary VLLE data were used to test the validity of two versions of the UNIFAC model and the NRTL-HOC and the UNIQUAC-HOC models with the parameters determined from the phase equilibrium data of the constituent binaries. The ternary VLLE data were also correlated with the NRTL-HOC and the UNIQUAC-HOC models and the Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation of state with the Wong-Sandler mixing rule.