Isobaric vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements are reported for binary mixture of 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran and Cumene at 97.3 kPa. The data were obtained using a vapor recirculating type (modified Othmer's) equilibrium still. The mixture shows slight negative deviation from ideality. The system does not form an azeotrope. The experimental data obtained in this study are thermodynamically consist...

Separation of benzene and cyclohexane is one of the most important processes in the petrochemical industry. However, due to their close boiling points and azeotrope formation, it is difficult to separate cyclohexane and benzene by conventional distillation processes. In this work, five thiocynate-based ionic liquids were investigated as solvent for separation of benzene and cyclohexane using ex...

Isobaric vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements are reported for binary mixture of 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran and Cumene at 97.3 kPa. The data were obtained using a vapor recirculating type (modified Othmer's) equilibrium still. The mixture shows slight negative deviation from ideality. The system does not form an azeotrope. The experimental data obtained in this study are thermodynamically consist...

Acetic acid is the most widely used aliphatic carbonic acid used as a reaction partner during the manufacture of acetic acid esters, or employed as a solvent in the production of cellulose acetate. Although acetic acid and water do not form any azeotrope, use of simple distillation to separate these two components is still not practical due to its high energy consumption rate. In this work, som...

A novel approach for enclosing all heterogeneous and reactive azeotropes in multi-component mixtures is presented. The thermodynamic conditions for azeotropy form a system of nonlinear equations. A deterministic global optimization approach is introduced in which the global optimization problem may contain multiple global minima and there is a one-to-one correspondence between each global minim...