Estimation of excess volume and density of ternary liquid mixtures of non-electrolytes from binary data

Abstract

Several methods for estimating the excess volume and density of ternary liquid mixtures of non-electrolytes from binary data are tested using 27 sets of data from the literature. The mean error of the excess volume estimation is lower than 0.1 cm3 mol-1. The use of the tested methods for estimating the density of ternary mixtures results in a significant reduction of the error compared to the stimation when the mixture is considered to be ideal. In decisive majority of the data sets, the maximum error in the density estimation is lower than 0.1%.