Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.49, No.6, 1554-1559, 2004
Vapor-liquid equilibria of the carbon dioxide plus ethyl propanoate and carbon dioxide plus ethyl acetate systems at pressure from 2.96 MPa to 11.79 MPa and temperature from 313 K to 393 K
Vapor-liquid equilibrium data (p, T, x, rho) for the carbon dioxide + ethyl propanoate (EP) and carbon dioxide + ethyl acetate (EA) systems were measured from 313 K to 393 K and in the pressure range from 2.96 MPa to 11.97 MPa. The measurements were carried out in a cylindrical autoclave with a moveable piston and an observation window. The results show that the solubilities Of CO2 in ethyl propanoate and ethyl acetate strongly increase with pressure, but the concentration of ethyl propanoate or ethyl acetate in the gas phase only slightly increases. The experimental data were correlated using the Peng-Robinson equation of state (EOS) with the two-parameter van der Waals mixing rule.