Thermodynamics Research Center / ThermoML | Fluid Phase Equilibria

ABSTRACT

Isothermal vapour-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data were measured for 2-propanone + 2-butanol at (333.15 and 353.15) K and 2-propanone + propanoic acid at (333.15, 353.15, and 373.15) K. For the subatmospheric pressure measurements, a dynamic recirculating VLE glass still operated isothermally was used, whilst a novel recirculating stainless steel of similar architecture, capable of operating at pressures up to 750 kPa was used for measurements above atmospheric pressures. The experimental VLE data for the 2-propanone + 2-butanol system at (333.15 and 353.15) K were correlated to the Wilson and NRTL models using the gamma-phi approach with the Hayden and O'Connell correlation employed for calculating the second virial coefficients. For the 2-propanone + propanoic acid system, the considerably more complex iterative procedure of Prausnitz et al. [J.M. Prausnitz, T.F. Anderson, E.A. Grens, C.A. Eckert, R. Hsieh, J.P. O'Connell, Computer Calculations for Multicomponent Vapour-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium, Prentice- Hall, New Jersey, 1980] was utilized to account for acid dimerization in the vapour phase. In the computational procedure for finding liquid phase activity coefficients, true species vapour phase mole fractions (ni) are solved for, with the equilibrium association constant, Ki emerging from the computations. The thermodynamic consistency of the data was verified through the point and direct test methods of Van Ness.