Hygrometric determination of water activities, osmotic and activity coefficients of (NaCl plus KCl)(aq) at T=298.15 K

The purpose of this study is to present a model for the prediction of water activity in multicomponent aqueous solutions containing a common ion from available binary data. The hygrometric method has been used to measure relative humidities for the aqueous electrolyte mixture (NaCl + KCl) (aq) at total molalities ranging from 0.2 mol (.) kg(-1) to saturation for different molal ratios r of NaCl(aq) to KCl(aq) with r = (0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, and 4) at T = 298.15 K. The data obtained have been used to determine water activities and osmotic coefficients. The results show that the values of water activities and osmotic coefficients calculated with the proposed model are close to the experimental ones. This model is also compared with four other models (RS, Pitzer, RWR, and LS II) over the range of the studied total molalities. From the measurements, the activity coefficients of NaCl(aq) and KCl(aq) in the mixture have also been determined. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.