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Fluid Phase Equilibria 336 (2012) 34–40
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Osmotic and activity coefficients for the CsF + methanol or ethanol + water
ternary systems determined by potentiometric measurements
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Jing Tang, Lei Wang, Shu’ni Li , Quanguo Zhai, Yucheng Jiang, Mancheng Hu
Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710062, PR China
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history: The thermodynamic properties of CsF in the ROH (R = methyl or ethyl) + water mixtures were determined
Received 18 July 2012
using potentiometric measurements at 298.15 K with the mass fraction of ROH varying from 0.00 to 0.30.
Received in revised form 15 August 2012
The Pitzer, extended Debye–Hückel and Pitzer–Simonson–Clegg equations were successfully utilized
Accepted 19 August 2012
to fit the experimental data based on the molality and mole-fraction-composition scale. Except for the
Available online 25 August 2012
standard cell potentials and Pitzer parameters, the mean activity coefficients, osmotic coefficients and
standard Gibbs energies of transference of CsF from water to the methanol + water or ethanol + water
Keywords:
mixtures have also been discussed herein.
Activity coefficient
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Osmotic coefficient CsF
Potentiometric measurements
1. Introduction (RbCl/CsCl + methanol/ethanol + water [10], RbCl/CsCl + ethylene
glycol/propylene glycol/glycerol [11,12]), we present herein the
It is well-known that the thermodynamic properties of elec- thermodynamic properties of CsF in mixed solvents with the mass
trolyte in aqueous or mixed solvents, such as activity coefficients, fraction of methanol or ethanol 0.10, 0.20, and 0.30 at 298.15 K.
osmotic coefficients, Gibbs excess energies and heat capacities The experimental data were well fitted to the Pitzer, the extended
are important for various industrial and environmental processes. Debye–Hückel, and Pitzer–Simonson–Clegg equations.
Especially, alkali metals in aqueous or aqueous-organic mixed
solvent are often selected as part of the research system. For exam-
ple, Hernández-Luis et al. have reported the experimental data 2. Equations
for NaCl [1], NaClO4 [2] and NaBF4 [3] in water or poly (eth-
ylene glycol) 4000 + H2O at temperatures of 288.15, 298.15, and The experimental mean activity coefficients of CsF in the
308.15 K by potentiometric measurements. The activity coefficients aqueous-organic mixtures were calculated from the following
of KCl in proline + water [4] and formamide + water [5] systems Nernstian equation
have been investigated by Ghalami-Choobar and co-workers.
Vera and co-workers have studied the individual ion activity 0
E = E + 2k ln(m ±) (1)
coefficients of 1:1 electrolytes, such as KCl [6], NaNO3 + KNO3,
NaCl + KCl, and NaCl + NaBr [7], using potentiometric measure-
where E and m are the experimental values, which represent the
ments at 298.15 K. The ternary systems NaCl + CH3OH + H2O [8]
potential of the cell and the molality of CsF, respectively. ± is the
and NH4Br + NaBr + H2O [9] was also performed by Deyhimi and
mean activity coefficient of CsF; k = RT/F is the theoretical Nernstian
co-workers.
slope in which the symbols (R, T, and F) have their usual meanings.
Up to now, although the thermodynamic properties for a 0
E is the standard potential of the cell.
wide variety of alkali metal salts in organic-water mixtures have
Pitzer equations were used to describe the mean activity coef-
been explored, limited reports can be found for the rare-alkali
ficient in our calculation. For a 1–1 type electrolyte, the Pitzer
metal salts. As an extension of our work on the thermodynam-
equations for the mean activity coefficient ( ±) and osmotic coef-
ics of rubidium chloride and cesium chloride in mixed solvents
ficient (Ф) can be written as follows [13]: