The effect of lithium chloride (LiCl) at salt mole fractions from 0.00
5 to 0.15 and at saturation on vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) of the b
inary acetone-methanol system has been experimentally investigated at
101.32 kPa using a modified Othmer equilibrium still, in order to eluc
idate the behavior of this mixture whose existing data are rather cont
radictory. The salting-out effect of the salt on the VLE of the mixed
solvent was explained by the preferential solvation theory. The experi
mental data were correlated by the electrolytic NRTL model of Mock et
al. (1986). The mean absolute deviations of the correlation for gamma
and T are 0.018 and 0.74 K, respectively. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.
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