Diffusion of Benzyl Acetate, 2-Phenylethyl Acetate, 3-Phenylpropyl Acetate, and Dibenzyl Ether in Mixtures of Carbon Dioxide and Ethanol
文摘
Diffusion coefficients of four solutes at infinite dilution (benzyl acetate, 2-phenylethyl acetate, 3-phenylpropylacetate, and dibenzyl ether) were measured in the system CO2 + ethanol from 313.16 to 333.16 K and pressuresbetween 15 and 35 MPa over the full concentration range of the CO2 + ethanol mixture. The diffusionalbehavior in the mixed solvent was compared with the estimation of seven simple predictive equations, LeBlanc, Wilke-Chang, Holmes-Olander-Wilke, Tang-Himmelblau (two formulas), Perkins-Geankoplis,and Leffler-Cullinam, observing that the first two give errors between 17 and 30% and that deviations lowerthan 11% are only obtained with the expressions of Tang-Himmelblau. Nevertheless, as none of the studiedequations considers the self-association of ethanol nor complex formation between solute and alcohol molecules,the model of Lusis-Ratcliff and Mohan-Srnivasan was extended to a ternary liquid-supercritical systemwith the diffusing component dilute, obtaining average absolute deviations lower than 4.6% for the diffusivitiesof the four solutes. Nevertheless, the extension of this model is correlative (it needs one adjustable parameterfor each solute), not predictive.