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Abstract
In this work, vapourliquid equilibria for the quaternary reactive system ethyl acetate + ethanol + water + acetic acid and constituent binary
systems ethyl acetate + ethanol, ethyl acetate + acetic acid and water + acetic acid has been determined at 101.3 kPa. UNIQUAC equation was
used to correlate the experimental phase equilibrium data of the quaternary system. Experimental binary data were correlated using Wilson,
NRTL and UNIQUAC equations.
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Keywords: Vapourliquid equilibria; Quaternary; Reactive; Ethyl acetate; Ethanol; Water; Acetic acid
1. Introduction
In the last years, reactive distillation has become an usual
alternative to reaction separation processes [13], especially
for equilibrium-limited reactions, like esterification reactions. The synthesis of ethyl acetate via reactive distillation
is an interesting project because ethyl acetate is a widely
used solvent in industrial processes. Even though there are
some investigations regarding this process [47], there are not
recently published vapourliquid equilibrium data of the quaternary reactive system in the same conditions of our work.
Kang et al. [8] present VLE data for this system adding
2 wt.% of para-toluenesulfonic acid to the liquid phase to
obtain chemical reaction equilibrium.
In this work, experimental data of isobaric vaporliquid
equilibria for the reactive quaternary system ethyl acetate +
ethanol + water + acetic acid and for some of the nonreactive constituent binary systems (ethyl acetate + acetic
acid, water + acetic acid, ethyl acetate + ethanol) were carried
out at 101.3 kPa. The binary system ethanol + water was not
0378-3812/$ see front matter 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.fluid.2005.07.010
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Table 1
Comparison of density, , and viscosity, , at 298.15 and the boiling points of the pure components with literature data
(g cm3 )
tB (K)
Component
Experimental
Literaturea
103 (Pa s)
Experimental
Literature
Experimental
Literature
1.115
1.115b
Acetic acid
390.95
391.035
1.0436
1.0436b
Ethyl acetate
350.27
350.261
0.8944
0.8945c
0.8944d
0.426
0.424d
0.429c
Water
Ethanol
373.15
351.43
373.150
351.443
0.9971
0.7854
0.9971e
0.7854f
0.890
1.082
0.890e
1.082g
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
From [18].
From [19].
From [20].
From [21].
From [22].
From [23].
From [24].
x1
y1
350.77
350.08
349.52
348.76
347.53
347.16
346.74
346.07
345.70
345.61
345.51
345.41
345.35
345.27
345.22
345.19
345.21
345.29
345.43
345.61
345.89
346.33
346.99
347.91
0.0239
0.0437
0.0651
0.1005
0.1633
0.1886
0.2220
0.2905
0.3406
0.3697
0.3916
0.4150
0.4342
0.4643
0.4990
0.5369
0.5792
0.6241
0.6594
0.7002
0.7447
0.7919
0.8420
0.8992
0.0602
0.1024
0.1367
0.1936
0.2778
0.3066
0.3389
0.3899
0.4296
0.4407
0.4586
0.4729
0.4844
0.4981
0.5178
0.5410
0.5657
0.5930
0.6165
0.6438
0.6762
0.7164
0.7699
0.8357
2.471
2.349
2.143
2.014
1.851
1.790
1.704
1.531
1.457
1.381
1.361
1.329
1.304
1.257
1.218
1.184
1.147
1.113
1.090
1.066
1.043
1.025
1.014
1.001
0.988
0.989
0.994
0.994
1.004
1.008
1.019
1.059
1.081
1.113
1.120
1.139
1.154
1.191
1.225
1.263
1.314
1.374
1.421
1.488
1.571
1.658
1.726
1.863
Table 3
Vaporliquid equilibrium data for ethyl acetate (1) + acetic acid (2) system
at 101.3 kPa
T (K)
x1
y1
388.86
387.91
386.97
385.03
384.03
382.21
380.57
379.12
376.35
373.77
371.67
367.87
365.00
364.00
362.65
361.91
360.21
358.94
357.82
356.57
355.20
354.21
353.55
352.20
351.45
350.61
0.0238
0.0366
0.0476
0.0776
0.0907
0.1170
0.1410
0.1657
0.2203
0.2661
0.3085
0.3924
0.4617
0.4924
0.5332
0.5559
0.6068
0.6568
0.6986
0.7426
0.7974
0.8415
0.8644
0.9197
0.9482
0.9809
0.0825
0.1189
0.1518
0.2443
0.2718
0.3265
0.3795
0.4297
0.5369
0.6113
0.6739
0.7621
0.8215
0.8463
0.8702
0.8820
0.9074
0.9266
0.9439
0.9571
0.9710
0.9769
0.9811
0.9898
0.9938
0.9968
1.733
1.635
1.618
1.619
1.556
1.475
1.448
1.417
1.373
1.343
1.319
1.252
1.214
1.196
1.169
1.155
1.133
1.101
1.085
1.069
1.048
1.027
1.024
1.010
1.007
1.003
0.980
0.973
0.967
0.932
0.933
0.932
0.924
0.913
0.870
0.852
0.825
0.814
0.801
0.778
0.778
0.781
0.779
0.789
0.759
0.763
0.763
0.888
0.924
1.056
1.153
1.983
x1
y1
386.54
384.47
382.96
381.86
380.39
379.83
378.65
378.35
377.84
377.47
377.18
376.70
376.28
375.98
375.68
375.45
375.00
374.62
374.45
374.11
373.99
373.84
373.66
373.31
0.0901
0.1414
0.1934
0.2593
0.3241
0.3627
0.4454
0.4702
0.5071
0.5337
0.5698
0.6046
0.6546
0.6808
0.7057
0.7332
0.7789
0.8287
0.8555
0.8963
0.9140
0.9391
0.9653
0.9902
0.2253
0.3177
0.3954
0.4654
0.5311
0.5622
0.6371
0.6593
0.6844
0.7047
0.7271
0.7536
0.7961
0.8200
0.8394
0.8566
0.8819
0.9064
0.9183
0.9419
0.9515
0.9651
0.9809
0.9951
2.274
2.087
1.920
1.680
1.554
1.470
1.362
1.336
1.291
1.267
1.222
1.200
1.171
1.163
1.153
1.133
1.103
1.067
1.048
1.029
1.020
1.008
0.999
0.999
0.938
0.925
0.915
0.923
0.944
0.965
0.989
0.993
1.026
1.043
1.080
1.105
1.106
1.092
1.094
1.119
1.196
1.341
1.464
1.629
1.736
1.942
2.120
2.279
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Table 5
Consistency test for the binary systems
System
P (mm Hg)
y1
0.002
0.003
0.007
0.006
0.009
0.008
yi P
(Bii ViL )(P Pi0 )
+
0
RT
xi P i
P
yi yk (2nji njk )
2RT
(1)
j=1 k=1
(2)
Table 6
Correlation parameters and standard deviations for the binary systems at 101.3 kPa
Model
Parameters (J mol1 )
12
g12
u12
351.10
1239.80
1471.19
21
g21
u21
2424.90
1792.70
185.81
590.92
1072.06
852.93
21
g21
u21
1400.96
322.69
370.66
1062.63
692.78
479.96
21
g21
u21
278.59
60.09
969.61
12
g12
u12
T (K)
y1
0.78
0.277
0.277
0.276
0.0068
0.0070
0.0068
0.31
0.699
0.385
0.311
0.0389
0.0413
0.0399
0.30
0.436
0.431
0.337
0.0352
0.0339
0.0369
218
219
ij
j=1 i=1
Correlation parameters and the standard deviations are
summarized in Table 6.
To predict the VLE of the binary systems, ASOG and
UNIFAC methods have been used. Fig. 1 shows the xy diagrams and Fig. 2 shows the boiling temperature diagrams
of the experimental, predicted and literature data [2831]
for the binary systems determined. Fig. 3 shows experimental and predicted activity coefficients. For the systems
ethyl acetate + ethanol and water + acetic acid, ASOG method
gives better results than UNIFAC. Table 7 presents the standard deviation of the boiling points and the vapor-phase mole
fractions for the binary systems.
3.2. Quaternary system
Table 8 summarizes the experimental VLE isobaric data
for the system ethyl acetate + ethanol + water + acetic acid.
To correlate the experimental phase equilibrium data of
the quaternary system, the UNIQUAC equation was used. In
this case, the objective function to minimize is defined by:
O.F. =
np
i=1
exp
(ij ijcalc )
(4)
y1
T (K)
0.01263
0.01063
0.1668
1.1775
0.05463
0.01910
2.6978
1.0592
0.01462
0.02286
0.3074
0.6201
Fig. 3. Activity coefficients plots of the binary systems at 101.3 kPa; () this
work, () ASOG and ( ) UNIFAC models: (a) ethyl acetate + ethanol;
(b) ethyl acetate + acetic acid; (c) water + acetic acid.
the quaternary system correlation, have been used to predict the VLE of the binary mixtures ethyl acetate + ethanol,
ethanol + water, ethyl acetate + acetic acid, water + acetic acid
and ethyl acetate + water, with the aim of checking the
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Fig. 4. Comparison between experimental and calculated data () using UNIQUAC parameters from quaternary system correlation: (a) ethanol + water system,
() from [9]; (b) ethyl acetate + ethanol system, () this work; (c) ethyl acetate + acetic acid, () this work; (d) water + acetic acid, () this work; (e) ethyl
acetate + water, () from [32], () from [33].
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Table 8
Vaporliquid equilibrium data for the quaternary system ethyl acetate (1) + ethanol (2) + water (3) + acetic acid (4) at 101.3 kPa
T (K)
x1
x2
x3
y1
y2
y3
352.11
352.38
355.17
347.71
353.14
353.88
354.93
351.56
357.8
347.82
351.1
351.28
349.79
347.82
347.83
347.91
347.44
347.17
347.8
349.22
355.7
358.89
348.46
354.77
353.57
354.96
347.31
347.56
355.54
351.23
351.17
351.89
353.84
356.05
0.2632
0.3474
0.2698
0.3588
0.2649
0.2228
0.1554
0.2831
0.1190
0.5143
0.0858
0.0912
0.1818
0.2639
0.2804
0.2797
0.3605
0.3665
0.4083
0.1985
0.2026
0.1668
0.1787
0.1446
0.1244
0.1514
0.4510
0.5047
0.1366
0.1430
0.1449
0.1206
0.1192
0.0683
0.2036
0.1837
0.1354
0.1527
0.3484
0.1481
0.1629
0.2448
0.1568
0.1683
0.4163
0.4616
0.3347
0.1052
0.2224
0.3295
0.1152
0.1986
0.4235
0.5425
0.2758
0.1110
0.5608
0.4385
0.4066
0.2343
0.1027
0.2086
0.1488
0.4549
0.3434
0.2290
0.1413
0.0623
0.3004
0.2887
0.2797
0.3698
0.1579
0.3362
0.4387
0.3139
0.4611
0.2327
0.4142
0.3533
0.3929
0.5088
0.3860
0.2888
0.4004
0.3292
0.0898
0.1771
0.2049
0.3749
0.0923
0.1638
0.2902
0.4681
0.3317
0.1968
0.4646
0.2554
0.3655
0.4590
0.5528
0.6553
0.5274
0.5590
0.5908
0.6015
0.4625
0.5550
0.4548
0.4945
0.4074
0.6118
0.5357
0.4642
0.3971
0.4650
0.5382
0.4835
0.6526
0.5551
0.4977
0.3118
0.4261
0.4804
0.4066
0.3165
0.3346
0.4346
0.5635
0.5938
0.4870
0.3255
0.3712
0.4339
0.4680
0.4551
0.2471
0.2052
0.1684
0.1701
0.3763
0.1953
0.2200
0.2545
0.2555
0.1708
0.2964
0.3575
0.3516
0.1310
0.2173
0.3086
0.1210
0.2058
0.4026
0.5255
0.3283
0.1792
0.4965
0.5033
0.4456
0.3018
0.1137
0.2115
0.2257
0.4730
0.3818
0.3068
0.2393
0.1503
0.2179
0.2278
0.2249
0.2284
0.1521
0.2432
0.3069
0.2472
0.3239
0.2157
0.1679
0.1782
0.2513
0.4039
0.2445
0.2079
0.2263
0.2392
0.0997
0.1527
0.2168
0.3172
0.0969
0.1731
0.2178
0.2636
0.2228
0.1947
0.2872
0.2015
0.2470
0.2592
0.2928
0.3946
1.8702
1.6111
1.8253
1.6938
1.6211
2.1306
2.9457
1.8238
3.4342
1.2685
3.4175
3.0098
2.4823
2.4398
1.9736
1.7796
1.7453
1.6076
1.3103
1.8663
1.8769
2.5743
1.7895
2.0037
2.5743
3.1898
1.4456
1.2549
3.2833
2.2661
2.6315
3.3674
4.2287
7.3726
1.1343
1.1582
1.153
1.1865
1.0954
1.1585
1.2147
1.1277
1.2581
1.2574
1.1306
1.0902
1.1153
1.2471
1.1488
1.1042
1.2076
1.1697
1.1636
1.0456
1.0995
1.2004
1.0423
1.0573
1.2004
1.2763
1.2383
1.2463
1.2505
1.0593
1.1114
1.2105
1.3481
1.6857
2.2697
2.5734
2.2899
2.3955
2.6916
2.0439
1.7087
2.3321
1.5929
3.4035
1.7148
1.8426
1.9350
1.8333
2.1557
2.4190
2.3128
2.5399
3.5627
2.5376
2.3100
1.8052
2.6719
2.3104
1.8052
1.5954
2.7883
3.5062
1.6226
2.1434
1.8909
1.6337
1.4715
1.2471
0.9888
1.0104
0.9932
0.9966
1.0240
0.9823
0.9865
0.9867
1.0006
1.0920
0.9896
0.9859
0.9657
0.9893
0.9741
0.9822
0.9974
1.0001
1.0929
1.0003
0.9956
0.9808
1.0187
1.0053
0.9808
1.0092
1.0375
1.0983
0.9978
0.9856
0.9753
0.9975
1.0302
1.1714
Table 9
UNIQUAC parameters (J mol1 ) and standard deviations resulting from the
correlation of VLE data of quaternary system ethyl acetate (1) + ethanol
(2) + water (3) + acetic acid (4)
EtAc
EtOH
H2 O
HAc
EtAc
EtOH
H2 O
HAc
0
263.90
668.50
63.07
18.05
0
111.40
327.48
388.05
172.09
0
290.26
148.28
469.57
460.57
0
T (K)
y1
y2
y3
y4
3.63
0.051
0.030
0.041
0.019
4. Conclusions
In this work, experimental isobaric vaporliquid equilibria data for the reactive quaternary system ethyl
List of symbols
Bii
second virial coefficients for component i
second virial coefficients for interactions between
Bij
molecules ij
P
total pressure
Pi0
saturation pressure
T
temperature
ViL
molar liquid volume for the component i
xi
liquid-phase mole fraction for component i
yi
vapour-phase mole fraction for component i
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Greek symbols
ji , jk functions for virial coefficients
i
liquid-phase activity coefficient for component i
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
[27]
[28]
[29]
[30]
[31]
[32]
[33]