Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.48, No.9, 4603-4606, 2009
Vapor Pressures of Polymer Solutions and the Modeling of Their Composition Dependence
Equilibrium vapor pressures, p, are reported for the systems tetrahydrofuran + poly(vinyl methyl ether) and tetrahydrofuran + polystyrene at 20, 40, and 60 degrees C. These data plus information from the literature serve to demonstrate that the composition dependence of p can be modeled quantitatively for polymer Solutions in thermodynamically very different solvents by means of three, physically meaningful parameters.