Journal
FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA
Volume 425, Issue -, Pages 127-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2016.05.017
Keywords
Poly(oxymethylene) dimethyl ethers; Liquid-liquid equilibrium; UNIFAC; Medium-field NMR
Funding
- German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) [22403914]
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Poly(oxymethylene) dimethyl ethers (OME) are an interesting class of oxygenated fuel components and solvents for the absorption of carbon dioxide. The chemical structure of OMEn is H3C-O-(CH2O)(n)-CH3 with n >= 2 and the IUPAC names are methoxy(methoxymethoxy)methane (n = 2), 2,4,6,8-tetraoxanonane (n = 3), and 2,4,6,8,10-pentaoxaundecane (n = 4). This work studies the liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) in the binary systems (water + methylal), (water + OME2), (water + OME3), and (water + OME4) and the ternary systems (water + methanol + OME2), (water + methanol + OME3), (formaldehyde + water + OME2), (formaldehyde + water + OME3), and (water + methylal + OME2) in the temperature range 280 K - 340 K. The systems were studied by gas chromatographic-and titrimetric analysis of samples that were drawn from the coexisting liquid phases, as well by in situ analysis with a medium-field NMR spectrometer. The LLE was modeled by extending a UNIFAC-based activity coefficient model of the system (formaldehyde + water + methanol + methylal) from the literature. One new structural group is introduced to represent the OME. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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