SDS Volume (3662)

Volume 69. Ternary Alcohol-Hydrocarbon-Water Systems, p None

Original Measurements

Kretschmer, C. B.; Wiebe, R.; Ind. Eng. Chem. 37, 1130 (1945).

Variables:

Room Temp: 228 - 298 $\pu{K}$

Prepared by:

A. Skrzecz

Method/Apparatus/Procedure:

A glass tube with stirrer containing the ternary mixture was immersed in a bath, the temperature of which could be varied. Mixtures were prepared directly in the tube, by special pipettes at 15.5 °C. Precautions to exclude moisture and to prevent evaporation were observed. No correction was made for the slight expansion in volume when alcohol was mixed with hydrocarbon. In the paper the experimental results were expressed as the water tolerance of the alcohol-hydrocarbon blend. For practical purposes water tolerance was defined as the volume percent of water which can be added before separation occurs.

Source and Purity of Materials:

1. Source not specified; anhydrous ethanol.
2. Source not specified; BP = 99.25°C.
3. Source not specified.

Estimated Errors:

Ambient temperature: Temp. within about 0.3°C (duplicate determinations); composition <0.2% relative of volume fraction.
Mass concentration (m/v) (1): Not reported.