Ternary liquid—liquid equilibria for acetonitrile—ethanol—cyclohexane and acetonitrile—2-propanol—cyclohexane

Liquid—liquid equilibrium data were obtained for two ternary systems: acetonitrile— ethanol—cyclohexane at 40°C, and acetonitrile—2-propanol—cyclohexane at 50°C. Binary vapor—Liquid equilibrium data were measured for acetonitrile—2-propanol at 50°C. The binary parameters of the Zeta and effective Zeta equations were evaluated from equilibrium data for binary pairs. The parameters obtained were used to predict the ternary liquid—liquid equilibrium data for six systems involving the present systems and the ternary vapor—liquid equilibrium data for one completely miscible system and two partially miscible systems without adding any ternary parameter. A heterogeneous area calculated by the Zeta equation is in general too large and does not decrease appreciably with increasing values of the third parameter ζ of the Zeta equation. However, the effective Zeta equation works much better than the original Zeta equation in data reduction.