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Solubility of sulfur dioxide in aqueous solutions of acetic acid, sodium acetate, and ammonium acetate in the temperature range from 313 to 393 K at pressures up to 3.3 MPa: Experimental results and comparison with correlations/predictions

Journal Article · · Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ie980529t· OSTI ID:338604
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  1. Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany). Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Thermodynamik
In many chemical plants, for example in coal gasification processes or desulfurization equipment, sour gas absorption columns and sour water strippers are used to remove weak electrolyte gases like sulfur dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide or carbon dioxide from aqueous solutions. The basic design of such equipment requires physico-chemical models to describe the phase equilibrium as well as the caloric properties of such mixtures. New experimental results for the solubility of sulfur dioxide in aqueous solutions of single solutes acetic acid, sodium acetate and ammonium acetate at temperatures from 313 to 393 K and total pressures up to 3.3 MPa are reported. Similar to the system sulfur dioxide-water, also in such systems with acetic acid and sodium or ammonium acetate a second (sulfur dioxide rich) liquid phase is observed at high sulfur dioxide concentrations. A model to describe the phase equilibrium is presented and calculated (i.e., predicted as well as correlated) phase equilibria are compared to the new experimental data.
OSTI ID:
338604
Journal Information:
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal Name: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 38; ISSN IECRED; ISSN 0888-5885
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English