The effect of salt concentration on equilibrium vapor composition at atmospheric pressure was studied in four ethanol-water-salt systems at the boiling point, with mixed--solvent composition held constant. The salts investigated were potassium iodide, ammonium bromide, sodium acetate, and potassium acetate. As expected, the two inorganic salts were in good agreement with the Furter equation. In the case of the two salts of organic acids the agreement became less and less valid as salt concentration increased. The failure of the equation with the two acetate salts was attributed to the presence of significant organic ion-alcohol interaction, a situation which does not normally become significant with inorganic ions in aqueous alcohol solution except at high alcohol concentrations. '-phe original equation for salt effect in vapor-liquid equilibrium, proposed by Furter in 1958 (1,2), predicts the effect of a salt dissolved in a mixed solvent on vapor-liquid equilibrium when the composition of the solvent is held constant: In («./«) -fc*.(1)In the equation, equilibrium vapor composition expressed in the form of an improvement factor, aja, is related to salt concentration % in the liquid phase by the salt effect parameter, k. According to the theoretical 1 Current address:
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