The phase equllibria behavior of the binary mixtures nitrogen + ethane and nitrogen + propane Is studied along their three-phase liquid-liquid-vapor loci at temperatures greater than 117 K. Data presented are pressure, and L, and L, Ilquld-phase compositions and molar volumes as a function of temperature. Comparisons with literature data are made.
IntroductlonWe have undertaken an extensive study of liquid-liquid-vapor (L,-L,-V) phenomena in well-defined ternary prototype systems of liquefied natural gas (LNG) (7-6). Many of these ternary systems have exhibited L-L-V immiscibility without having an immiscible constituent binary pair. An example would be the system methane + ethane + n-octane (7), whose three-phase thermodynamic phase space is bounded by loci of K points [L,-L, = V), LCST points (L, = L,-V), and Q points (S-L,-L,-V).By comparison, the systems methane + n-hexane + n-octane (3) and methane + n-hexane + nitrogen ( 5 ) had a constituent binary pair, methane + n-hexane, which exhibited L-Density measurements of the molten CoC1,-KCI mixtures of hlgh CoCI, composith wlth an open vessel are very dlfflcult or aknost ImpOedMe because of their hlgh volatility. The densities of CoCl, and KCI mixtures sealed In a quartz cell have been measured by a dllatometrlc method. The excess molar volume was posltlve around 30 mol % and around 70 mol % of CoC4. The results of the present lnvestlgatlon suggested that the tltle system contains the tetrahedral conttguration, CoC1,2-, at the composition X(CoC1,) = 0.30 and the other unknown species at X(CoC1,) = 0.70.