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ABSTRACT

Consistent vapor-liquid equilibrium data for the binary and ternary systems diisopropyl ether (1) + 2-propyl alcohol (2) + 3-methyl-1-butanol (3) are reported at 101.3 kPa. The diisopropyl ether (1) + 3-methyl-1- butanol (3) system shows positive deviations from ideal behavior, and the 2-propyl alcohol (2) + 3-methyl- 1-butanol (3) system exhibits slight deviations from ideal behavior. The activity coefficients and the boiling points were correlated with their compositions by the Wilson, NRTL, UNIQUAC, and Wisniak-Tamir equations. It is shown that these models allow a very good prediction of the phase equilibria of the ternary system using the pertinent parameters of the binary systems. 3-Methyl-1-butanol eliminates the diisopropyl ether (1) + 2-propyl alcohol (2) binary azeotrope. The change of phase equilibria behavior is significant; therefore, this solvent seems to be an effective agent for the separation of the azeotropic mixture by extractive distillation.