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Measurements and Correlation of Liquid-Liquid Equilibria for the Ternary System Cyclohexanol + Water + Cyclohexyl Formate at 298.2-338.2 K

Sommer, Tomas, Zapletal, Martin, Trejbal, Jiri
J. Chem. Eng. Data 2019, 64, 3, 1195-1201
ABSTRACT
Cyclohexanol is an important intermediate in production of adipic acid and a-caprolactam. On the industrial scale, cyclohexanol is produced by several methods that suffer from considerable drawbacks, such as a low conversion of the initial substance, the process low selectivity or explosion risks in oxidation unit. In order to design a new process of indirect hydration of cyclohexene in the presence of formic acid, it is necessary to know the given system properties. In this paper, the data of liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) are presented for the system of Cyclohexanol + Water + Cyclohexyl Formate under atmospheric pressure and within temperature range from 298.2 to 338.2 K. The experiments were conducted in a temperaturecontrolled glass cell and the received data were correlated with NRTL and UNIQUAC equations in order to obtain binary interaction parameters describing LLE of the given system. The measured data accuracy was specified by the Bachman and Othmer-Tobias equations. The data fitting accuracy was evaluated by the use of the calculated Average Absolute Deviation and the Root-Mean-Square-Error values. NRTL model obtained in this work was compared to a previous published model. The model obtained in this work significantly improves the prediction of ternary data at elevated temperatures.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 C6H12O cyclohexanol
2 H2O water
3 C7H12O2 cyclohexyl methanoate
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above). POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied; the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.
Type Compound-# Property Variable Constraint Phase Method #Points
  • POMD
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Mole fraction - 2 ; Liquid mixture 2
  • Mole fraction - 2 ; Liquid mixture 1
  • Mole fraction - 1 ; Liquid mixture 1
  • Temperature, K; Liquid mixture 1
  • Mole fraction - 1; Liquid mixture 2
  • Pressure, kPa; Liquid mixture 2
  • Liquid mixture 2
  • Liquid mixture 1
  • Chromatography
  • Chromatography
  • Chromatography
  • 50