Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.63, No.12, 4614-4625, 2018
Low-Pressure VLE Measurements and Thermodynamic Modeling, with PSRK and NRTL, of Binary 1-Alcohol + n-Alkane Systems
New subatmospheric vaporliquid equilibrium (VLE) data for five binary 1-alcohol + n-alkane systems are presented. An all-glass dynamic recirculating still was used to measure the phase behavior of the 1-pentanol + n-nonane, 1-hexanol + n-decane, 1-heptanol + n-undecane, 1-octanol + n-dodecane, and 1-decanol + n-tetradecane systems at 40 kPa. Each of the five systems displayed an azeotrope, indicating complex molecular interactions. Thermodynamic modeling was conducted with (1) the NRTL activity coefficient model, (2) the predictive SoaveRedlichKwong (PSRK) group contribution equation of state (EoS) with original UNIFAC model parameters, and (3) PSRK with newly regressed NRTL parameters. The models, in order of decreasing performance, were NRTL > PSRK (with UNIFAC) > PSRK (with NRTL). Therefore, the PSRK with UNIFAC parameters G(E)-EoS investigated in this article showed that accurate 1-alcohol + n-alkane VLE data can be predicted without the need to first measure experimental data.