Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
6-30-1965
Degree Name
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Chemical Engineering
First Advisor
Carl W. Carlson
Second Advisor
John E. McCormick
Third Advisor
Michael Frederick
Abstract
The possibility of determining the water traces in water saturated toluene as well as the traces of toluene in toluene saturated water by means of gas chromatography was investigated.
A 15 feet long, 1/4 inch copper column, attached to F & M Chromatograph 500, was used; the column was packed with 5 Armeen SB on Haloport F (Teflon).
The determination of toluene in toluene saturated water did not appear to be feasible, since the retention time for toluene with the used column was too short to allow the base line of the recorder to become steady at the attenuation value of 1 (with the strongest signal) after the water passed through the detector. Even though this problem was not encountered in the case of water determination in toluene, the results obtained for water solubility in toluene at higher temperatures were considerably lower than the ones reported in the literature.
Recommended Citation
Orshich, John, "Use of gas chromatography to determine the mutual solubility of water and toluene" (1965). Theses. 2717.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2717
