Lupong Kaewsichan and Chumphon Numuang

pp. 825 - 838

Abstract

Predictions of vapor liquid equilibria and azeotrope conditions of binary systems of 1-propanol+
water and 2-propanol+water at 30, 60, and 100 kPa were conducted in this work. UNIQUAC activity coefficient and ideal gas models represented behavior of the systems in liquid phase and vapor phase respectively. Experimental data collected from the literature (Gobaldon et al., 1996 and Marzal et al., 1996) were
used to calculate energy interaction parameters of the UNIQUAC activity coefficient model by non-linear
regression method. The obtained parameters were not dependent on temperature and mole fraction;
however, those parameters were dependent on pressure of the system. The mean absolute error of vapor mole
fraction of alcohol and water were in the range 3.86-4.65% and 2.33-3.28% respectively for the binary system
of 1-propanol +water. The mean absolute error of vapor mole fraction of alcohol and water were in the range
1.93-2.06% and 1.47-1.94% respectively for the binary system of 2-propanol+water. The thermodynamics
consistency test proved that the UNIQUAC activity coefficient model was satisfied very well with GibbsDuhem equation.

Keywords

• 1-propanol
• 2-propanol
• water
• VLE
• UNIQUAC
• azeotrope