Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.41, No.17, 4399-4408, 2002
Thermophysical behavior of methylbenzoate plus n-alkanes mixed solvents. Application of cubic equations of state and viscosity models
As part of a study on the interactions between aromatic esters and n-alkanes, density, viscosity, and refractive index data were measured for methylbefizoate-n-alkane mixed solvents. From these data, excess molar volumes (V-m(E)), mixing viscosities (Delta(mix)eta) excess Gibbs energies of activation of viscous flow (DeltaG(m)(*E)), and mixing refractive indices (Delta(mix)eta) were deduced. From the excess volumes, the partial molar volumes of the two components Were deduced iisi ng th intercept method. The cubic equations of state (EOS) proposed by Soave-Redlich-Kwong and Peng-Robinson combined with two simple mixing rule's were used to process the excess molar volumes. The change with temperature of the density and viscosity measurements enabled the activation enthalpy (DeltaH(m)(not equal)), activation entropy (DeltaS(m)*), Gibbs free, energy, (DeltaG(m)(not equal)), and thermal m M expansion coefficients (alpha) to be - determined. These results were interpreted in terms of intermolecular interactions and structural effects. The ability of different one-parameter and two-parameter empirical models to predict mixing viscosities was also tested.