| The solubilities of sodium chloride in the binary solvent system water+PEG 400 were measured by a synthetic
method using of a laser-assembled instrument at five temperatures between 298.2 K and 318.2 K. The mole fraction
solubility decreased nonlinearlywith increasing mass fraction of PEG 400, less pronounced in the water-rich
range, steeper with increasing mass fractions of PEG 400 of about 0.6. The highest mole fraction solubility of the
salt was 0.1004 measured in neat water at 313.2 K, the lowest solubility was 0.0352 at 293.2 K in pure PEG 400.
For the purpose of obtaining solubilities at temperatures and solvent compositions others than the measured
ones the following correlation modelswere applied: The Yalkowsky, the van't Hoff, the combined nearly ideal binary
solvent/Redlich-Kister (CNIBS/R-K), the Jouyban-Acree, and the van't Hoff-Jouyban-Acree model. The Overall
Mean Percentage Deviation (OMPD) and Mean Percentage Deviation (MPD) were used to evaluate the
constructed models for the entire set of the fifty-five data and for the sub-sets of the solubilities, respectively.
The lowest OMPD values of 0.6% and 1.2%, respectively, and thus the best prediction abilities, exhibited the
van't Hoff and the CNIBS/R-K models. The van't Hoff-Jouyban-Acree model with OMPD of 4.9% allows the calculation
of the solubility at any temperature and at any solvent composition by a single model equation. |