Phase equilibria and critical phenomena in a sodium nitrate-water-diethylamine ternary system

Abstract

The phase equilibria and critical phenomena in a sodium nitrate—water—diethylamine ternary system were studied by the visual polythermal method at 10—150°C, where the frontier binary liquid system is characterized by delamination with the lower critical solution temperature (LCST). The introduction of sodium nitrate into the water—diethylamine system led to a significant decrease (from 146.1 to 22.9°C) in the LCST of the system and the mutual solubility of its components. The coefficients of the distribution of diethylamine between the water and organic phases of the monotectic equilibrium at different temperatures were calculated. The effect of the salting-out of diethylamine by sodium nitrate from aqueous solutions increased with temperature. The constructed isotherms of the phase states of the system confirmed the general scheme of the topological transformation of the phase diagrams of the salt—binary solvent ternary systems with salting-out. The results of the salting-out action of sodi um, potassium, and cesium nitrates on the water—diethylamine binary system were compared.