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Automatic Low‐Cost Method to Determine the Solubility of Liquid‐Liquid Mixtures by Continuous‐Flow Cloud Point Titration
Author(s) -
Williamson Andrew P.,
Kiefer Johannes
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201400091
Subject(s) - solubility , titration , reproducibility , mixing (physics) , continuous flow , cloud point , process engineering , flow (mathematics) , binary number , chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , process (computing) , materials science , chromatography , computer science , aqueous solution , mechanics , physics , engineering , organic chemistry , mathematics , arithmetic , quantum mechanics , operating system
A low‐cost, accurate, and fast technique to determine the solubility of liquid‐liquid mixtures by continuous cloud point titration is demonstrated. A light‐emitting diode (LED) is employed to illuminate the mixing liquids during the continuous‐flow titration process, and the transmitted light as well as Mie scattering from droplets is monitored using a simple webcam image sensor. The time‐resolved evolution of the signal allows the determination of the solubility. In order to prove the concept and to evaluate its accuracy and reproducibility, experimental results from the binary systems butan‐1‐ol/water and pentan‐1‐ol/water are presented and compared with literature data. The entire setup can be realized with a low investment and delivers results virtually identical to those in literature with established techniques. The approach is suitable for academic and industrial, but due to its simplicity also for educational purposes.