The solubilities of ibuprofen and diazepam in water/ethanol binary solutions were predicted using COSMO-RS and UNIFAC. In case of the ibuprofen system, RMSE was 0.183, and COSMO-RS reproduced the experimental values well. The RMSE of UNIFAC was 0.628, and the solubilities predicted by UNIFAC were smaller than experimental values. Polarizabilities of several drugs in vacuum, water, and ethanol w...

The objective of this study was to model the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of nonionic surfactants in nonaqueous systems using the UNIFAC group contribution method. For the prediction of the cmc the phase separation approach was used, where the micellar phase is approximated as a second liquid phase resulting from the liquid-liquid equilibrium between the solvent and the surfactant, with...

Cubic equations of state combined with excess Gibbs energy predictive models (like UNIFAC) and equations of state based on applied statistical mechanics are among the main alternatives for phase equilibria prediction involving polar substances in wide temperature and pressure ranges. In this work, the predictive performances of the PC-SAFT with association contribution and Peng-Robinson (PR) co...

Experimental liquid-liquid equilibria of the water-acetic acid-butyl acetate system were studied at temperatures of 298.15±0.20, 303.15±0.20 and 308.15±0.20 K. Complete phase diagrams were obtained by determining solubility and tie-line data. The reliability of the experimental tie-line data was ascertained by using the Othmer and Tobias correlation. The UNIFAC group contribution method was use...

Group contribution methods, such as UNIFAC or ASOG can be successfully applied to the prediction of the real behavior of non electrolyte mixtures. Therefore these methods are used worldwide in the different process simulators for the synthesis and design of separation processes. Since the well known group contribution methods still show some weaknesses a modified version of the UNIFAC method ha...

The ability of two thermodynamic approaches to predict the solubility of solid compounds in hot pressurized water is studied and compared. The Regular Solution Theory, based on the solubility parameter concept, and UNIFACbased models were applied to calculate the solute activity coefficient and then, solubility predictions were compared with experimental data reported in the literature. The ana...

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...

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...

Group contribution methods such as the UNIFAC are very useful to researchers and engineers involved in synthesis, feasibility studies, design and optimization of separation processes. They can be applied successfully to predict phase equilibrium and excess properties in the development of chemical and separation processes. The main focus of this work was to investigate the possibility of absorb...