Number: 2002-050-1-500
Title: Solubility data related to industrial processes. Acetonitrile:
ternary and other multicomponent systems
Series: Solubility Data Series; editor-in-chief: Mark
Salomon
Task Group
Chairman: Valerii Sazonov
Members: Mark Salomon
and David Shaw
Completion Date: 2007 - project completed
Objective:
This project will exhaustively compile and critically evaluate published
solubility data for ternary and higher systems of acetonitrile with
all other components. The results of this work will be prepared in the
standard format of the IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series for publication
in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data and for
inclusion in a web-accessible database being prepared by the US National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Description:
The IUPAC Solubility Data Project (SDP) compiles and critically evaluates
data on chemical solubility and disseminates the resulting information
to the widest possible range of users by traditional (printed on paper)
and electronic (web-accessible database) means. Under the direction
of the Subcommittee on Solubility
and Equilibrium Data (SSED) of the Analytical
Chemistry Division, the SDP has focused on five subject areas of
wide importance.
The systems to be covered by this project fit into one of these priority
areas, Solubility Related to Industrial Processes. Acetonitrile is one
of the best extractive distillation solvents for separation of close
boiling paraffinic and olefinic hydrocarbons (hydrocarbons C5 + acetonitrile
+ water: isoprene + acetonitrile + water, trimethylethene + acetonitrile
+ water, isopentane + acetonitrile + water) and for the separation of
paraffinic and aromatic hydrocarbons (hexane + benzene + acetonitrile
+ water).
Others nitriles are used for separation of 1-alcohols, for example,
water + benzonitrile + ethanol (1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-butanol).
As the chemical process industry seeks more efficient and less energy-intensive
separation techniques, liquid-liquid extraction based on selective solubilities
are becoming more common.
Progress:
1st part: "Acetonitrile Binary Systems," SDS Volume 78, V.P.
Sazonov, et. al. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 2002, 31, No. 4, 989-1133
> View abstract
Part 2. "Acetonitrile: Ternary and Quaternary Systems," SDS
Volume 83, V.P. Sazonov, et. al. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 2007,
36, No. 3, 733-1131 > View
abstract
Part 3. "C-3 and Higher Nitriles: Binary and Multicomponent Systems"
> see project
2007-047-1-500
282 compilations and 35 critical Evaluations have already been reviewed
within the Task Group; estimated to be completed during 2006.
> Nov 2004 report update (pdf
file - 12KB)
> May 2006 report update (pdf
file - 11KB)
Project completed
>
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Last Update: 16 October 2007