Vapor-liquid equilibrium data for the binary system isopropanol+water at 60 kPa and 80 kPa

Abstract

In this work, experimental Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) data for the Isopropanol + Water system under vacuum conditions at 60 kPa and at 80 kPa, for which no experimental evidences have been found in the literature, are reported. The experimental investigation of the isobaric equilibrium has been carried out by GASP at the Process Thermodynamics laboratory (PT lab) of Politecnico di Milano by employing an all-glass dynamic recirculation still. The collected experimental data, together with those already available in the literature at other conditions, have been used for the evaluation of the thermodynamic model that best fits the data. Four different models have been considered and their performances have been checked through the calculation of the Absolute Average Deviation (AAD%). The lowest AAD% has been found for the UNIFAC model only for isobaric data, not for the isothermal points. The regression tool available in Aspen Plus® V14 has been used to fit the binary interaction parameters of the NRTL activity model.