Vapor–liquid equilibrium in the ternary system isobutyl alcohol + isobutyl acetate + N, N-dimethyl acetamide and the binary systems isobutyl alcohol + N, N-dimethyl acetamide, isobutyl acetate + N, N-dimethyl acetamide at 101.3 kPa

The isobaric Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) data at 101.3 kPa were measured for the binary systems isobutyl alcohol + N, N-dimethyl acetamide (DMAC), isobutyl acetate + N, N-dimethyl acetamide and the ternary system isobutyl alcohol + isobutyl acetate + N, N-dimethyl acetamide using an all glass dynamics recirculating still. The isobutyl alcohol + DMAC system exhibits negative deviation from Raoult's law and isobutyl acetate + DMAC system deviates positively from ideal solution. The thermodynamic consistency of the binary VLE data was checked by Herington method and Wisniak point-to-point method. The NRTL, UNIQUAC and Wilson activity coefficient models were used to correlate the binary VLE data in order to obtain the binary interaction parameters which were used to predict ternary VLE data. The predicted results agree well with the experimental data. The results indicate that the solvent DMAC can greatly enhance the relative volatility of isobutyl acetate to isobutyl alcohol, and azeotrope of isobutyl acetate and isobutyl alcohol will be broken if the mole fraction of DMAC is greater than 0.361. The effects of the solvents 1-hexanol, butyl propionate (BUP), N, N-dimethyl formamide (DMF) and N, N-dimethyl acetamide (DMAC) were compared, and the selectivity of DMAC was the largest. The solvent DMAC is a promising extractive agent for the separation of mixtures of isobutyl alcohol and isobutyl acetate by extractive distillation.