Abstract
Solid-liquid equilibria of three binary mixtures consisting of para-xylene, ortho-xylene, meta-xylene and ethylbenzene were investigated in this study using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) method, the mixtures were cooled to -120 °C and then heated to 20 °C at different heating rates, eutectic phase diagrams were observed for para-xylene/ortho-xylene and para-xylene/meta-xylene binary systems. The freezing point of pure ethylbenzene at atmospheric pressure is around -95 °C, but due to the effect of induction time, the observed freezing temperature is lower than -120 °C, the operation temperature of industrial xylene crystallization separation process is higher than -80 °C traditionally, therefore ethylbenzene will not crystallize in practical process, the phase diagram for para-xylene/ethylbenzene was not achieved. The experimental data were compared with data from other literatures and new features were found. The data were well correlated by Apelblat equation and λH equation, it is significative to provide important engineering data for the separation and purification of xylene mixtures.
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