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Article history: A new, simpler ebulliometer has been developed to accurately measure the vapor pressure of ethanol
Received 8 November 2011 isooctane and 1-butanolisooctane systems at various mixture compositions. The reliability of the exper-
Received in revised form 31 January 2013 imental apparatus was validated by comparing the experimental data with published data for pure iso-
Accepted 2 February 2013
octane and ethanol and ethanolisooctane system. Our data were in good agreement with the published
Available online 22 February 2013
data, with a deviation of less than 1.9%. The vapor pressure of an ethanolisooctane mixture was initially
elevated by the addition of ethanol until the ethanol concentration reached 0.3 mass fractions, then
Keywords:
dropped at concentrations above 0.7 mass fractions. For a 1-butanolisooctane system, the vapor pres-
Ebulliometer
Ethanol
sure decreased with increasing 1-butanol concentrations. The experimental data were correlated using
Isooctane the Wilson, Non-Random Two-Liquid (NRTL), and Universal Quasi-Chemical (UNIQUAC) activity coef-
Vapor pressure cient models with an average absolute deviation in the vapor pressures of 3.5%, 3.3%, and 6.1%,
respectively.
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developed an inclined ebulliometer that no longer required liquid simpler ebulliometer by removing the inclined portion from the
and vapor-phase composition analysis to measure the bubble point previous ebulliometer. In addition, a temperature detector was at-
for a chloroformethanolbenzene system. Li et al. [10] also noted tached at the liquidvapor interface to ensure the accuracy of equi-
that they adopted the angle of inclination of 30 for their work to librium temperature measurements.
ensure the accuracy of the equilibrium temperature measurement. The mixtures with varying isooctane and ethanol, isooctane and
In this work, a new, simpler ebulliometer is proposed based on 1-butanol compositions were prepared by directly weighing the
the work of Li et al. [10] by removing the inclination and enlarging constituent component on an Ohaus balance with a precision
the volume of the cell. We can ensure that the equilibrium and the of 0.0001 g. The temperature was measured using an RTD Pt
feed compositions do not change signicantly during the measure- 100 sensor connected to a Shimaden SD 15 temperature display
ments due to the small proportion of vapor formed during equilib- with a measurement accuracy of 0.1 K. The vapor pressures at
rium by enlarging the volume of the cell. Therefore, the present various temperatures and compositions were measured using a
apparatus can be used to accurately measure the vapor pressure mercury manometer with an accuracy of 0.1 mm Hg.
of a gasoline mixture. We used isooctane in this work to represent
gasoline because it is the main component in gasoline.
2.3. Experimental procedure
2. Experimental
A sample containing approximately 220 cm3 of a liquid mixture
of known composition was charged in the ebulliometer cell. First,
2.1. Materials
the system was created under vacuum conditions to remove air
and impurities from the equilibrium cell. Then, the equilibrium cell
All materials used in this work (isooctane, ethanol, and 1-buta-
was heated to reach the desired equilibrium temperature. The tem-
nol) were supplied by Merck, Darmstadt, Germany. These materi-
perature was controlled by a PID controller (Shimaden SR 64). After
als were used without further purication. Table 1 lists the
the ebulliometer reached a constant pressure at a desired equilib-
properties of all materials used.
rium temperature, the pressure was recorded as the vapor pressure
at a desired temperature. The experimental procedure was re-
2.2. Experimental apparatus peated at different temperatures and compositions.
Table 1
Properties of materials used in this work.
Table 2
Pexp Isooctane
Comparison of experimentally measured isooctane vapor pressures (Pexp) with the 33
literature data (Plit). Pexp Ethanol
30 PLit
T (K) Plit (kPa) Pexp (kPa) AAD (%)
300.35 7.31 7.33 0.34 27
302.75 8.17 8.13 0.51
305.95 9.46 9.47 0.08 24
P (kPa)
12
9
Table 3
6
Comparison of experimentally measured ethanol vapor pressure (Pexp) with the
300 303 306 309 312 315 318 321 324 327
literature data (Plit).
T (K)
T (K) Plit (kPa) Pexp (kPa) AAD (%)
301.35 8.86 8.93 0.86 Fig. 2. Vapor pressure data for isooctane and ethanol.
302.55 9.50 9.60 1.09
308.45 13.24 13.60 2.62
314.35 18.19 18.80 3.23
concentrations above 0.7 mass fractions. For the 1-butanolisooc-
318.95 23.07 23.46 1.66
321.15 25.78 26.26 1.86 tane, the vapor pressure of the mixture decreased with increasing
323.65 29.17 29.73 1.89 1-butanol concentrations.
325.85 32.46 33.06 1.83
Overall AAD 1.88 3.3. Correlation with the activity coefcient models
Table 5
20 Bubble point vapor pressure data for 1-butanol (1)isooctane (2) mixture.
21
Table 4
Bubble point vapor pressure data for ethanol (1)isooctane (2) mixture. 18
T (K) P (kPa) T (K) P (kPa) T (K) P (kPa) T (K) P (kPa)
w1 = 0.10 w1 = 0.20 w1 = 0.30 w1 = 0.40 15
305.65 16.13 302.95 15.47 306.75 19.20 302.15 14.13
308.15 18.80 307.05 19.20 308.15 20.27 302.95 14.53
12
P (kPa)
UNIQUAC eq.
lute deviations in the vapor pressures of 3.5%, 3.3%, and 6.1%,
14
respectively.
12
4. Conclusion 10
8
The new, simpler ebulliometer proposed in this work is a reli-
able tool to accurately measure the vapor pressure of both a pure 6
liquid and a mixture. This experimental apparatus was used to
4
measure the vapor pressure of an ethanolisooctane and a 1-buta- 300 303 306 309 312 315 318 321 324 327
nolisooctane mixture with deviations of less than 1.9%. The
T (K)
experimental data were well correlated with the Wilson, NRTL,
and UNIQUAC activity coefcient models with average absolute Fig. 5. Vapor pressure data for the ethanolisooctane and l-butanolisooctane
deviations in the vapor pressures of 3.5%, 3.3%, and 6.1%, mixtures: measured and correlated with three activity coefcient models.
R. Oktavian et al. / Fuel 107 (2013) 4751 51
Table 6
Summary of models comparison and models parameter calculated for the studied mixtures.
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