Phase equilibria for liquid mixtures of (benzonitrile  +  a carboxylic acid +  water) atT =  298.15 K

✍ Scribed by Trevor M Letcher; Gan G Redhi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9614
• DOI: 10.1006/jcht.2001.0872

✦ Synopsis

Liquid + liquid) equilibrium data are presented for mixtures of {benzonitrile(1) + acetic acid or propanoic acid or butanoic acid or 2-methylpropanoic acid or pentanoic acid or 3-methylbutanoic acid(2) + water(3)} at T = 298.15 K. The relative mutual solubility of each of the carboxylic acids is higher in the benzonitrile layer than in the aqueous layer. The influence of 3-methylbutanoic acid, pentanoic acid, 2-methylpropanoic acid, and butanoic acid on the solubility of the hydrocarbons in benzonitrile is greater than that of the acetic and propanoic acids. Three three-parameter equations have been fitted to the binodal curve data. These equations are compared and discussed in terms of statistical consistency. The NRTL and UNIQUAC models were used to correlate the experimental tie lines and to calculate the phase compositions of the ternary systems. The NRTL equation fitted the experimental data far better than the UNIQUAC equation. Selectivity values for solvent separation efficiency were derived from the tie line data.