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Experimental and Modeling of the Propene Solubility in the Heptane and Methylbenzene Solvents

Dashti, A.[Ali], Mazloumi, S. H., Ani, A. B.[Ali Bakhshi], Akbari, A.[Amir]
J. Chem. Eng. Data 2014, 59, 7, 2258-2262
ABSTRACT
To estimate the amount of dissolved propene gas in various industrial solvents especially in the early time of polymerization in slurry-phase propene polymerization and consequently achieve real polymer productivity, the precise experimental solubility data are needed. The solubility of propene in methylbenzene and heptane was measured at pressures from (0.13 to 1.27) MPa and temperatures ranging from (313 to 359) K. A static apparatus is used to measure the experimental data. The experimental data are modeled using the Peng Robinson cubic equation of state (PR CEOS) with the van der Waals (vdW) mixing rule with two adjustable parameters. The modeling results show that the PR CEOS is capable to represent the experimental data well.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 C3H6 propene
2 C7H16 heptane
3 C7H8 toluene
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
  • Mole fraction - 1 ; Liquid
  • Temperature, K; Liquid
  • Pressure, kPa; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • Pressure change
  • 39
  • POMD
  • 3
  • 1
  • Mole fraction - 1 ; Liquid
  • Temperature, K; Liquid
  • Pressure, kPa; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • Pressure change
  • 40