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ABSTRACT

This work reports phase equilibrium measurements and thermodynamic modeling of the binary systems (CO2 + ethyl levulinate) and (CO2 + levulinic acid). Each composition was carried out in a high-pressure variable-volume view cell, with temperatures from 303.15 to 353.15 K, and CO2 mole fraction ranging from 0.4002 to 0.9751, for the system (CO2 + ethyl levulinate), and from 0.4083 to 0.9930, for the system (CO2 + levulinic acid). Under these conditions, only vapor-liquid phase transitions were observed. The experimental data were modeled with the Peng-Robinson cubic equation of state with the Boston-Mathias alpha function (PR-BM) and using the van der Walls quadratic mixing rule. The results showed that the experimental data of the system (CO2 + ethyl levulinate) were adequately represented by the thermodynamic model with a unique set of binary interaction parameters, which were fitted from all isotherms. Whereas the experimental data of the system (CO2 + levulinic acid) were only adequately represented with temperature-dependent binary interaction parameters.