Fluid Phase Equilibria, Vol.135, No.2, 179-192, 1997
Prediction of the Excess Volume and Isobaric Thermal-Expansion for 1-Alkanol Plus N-Alkane Systems in Terms of an Association Model with a Flory Contribution Term
The predictive ability of the model proposed by Treszczanowicz and Benson [A.J. Treszczanowicz, G.C. Benson, Fluid Phase Equilib. 23 (1985) 117] is tested for all available excess volume V-E and excess thermal expansion A(p)(E) = (partial derivative V-E/partial derivative T)(p) data for 1-alkanol + alkane mixtures. The model takes into consideration the chemical effect of H-bond disruption described by an athermal-associated mixture model and the free-volume effect described by a Flory equation of state contribution. The model predicts V-E and A(p)(E) well for mixtures formed by alkanols from ethanol to 1-dodecanol and n-alkanes from n-pentane to n-hexadecane. In particular, the model predicts an intersection point for series S-shaped V-E and A(p)(E) isotherms. This phenomenon is discussed as resulting from a balance between the positive (association, non-specific interactions) and negative(free-volume) contributions.
Keywords:+ NORMAL-OCTANE;VAPOR-LIQUID-EQUILIBRIA;BINARY-MIXTURES;NORMAL-HEPTANE;MOLAR VOLUMES;NORMAL-HEXANE;TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE;NORMAL-NONANE;NONPOLAR-SOLVENTS;HEAT-CAPACITIES