Vapor-liquid equilibria of binary mixtures containing methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and/or substitution hydrocarbons at 298.15 K and 313.15 K

An up-to-date high accuracy vapor-liquid equilibrium apparatus (Van Nessʹ type) for binary and ternary mixtures has been newly built and successfully tested. A program on thermodynamic characterization of binary and ternary mixtures of oxygenate additives and/or hydrocarbons substituting the main classes of constituents of a real gasoline is presented. Some of the early results are reported, discussed and compared with literature data. These systems are the binary mixtures cyclohexane + n-heptane, benzene + cyclohexane and methyl tert-buthyl ether (MTBE) + n-hexane, all have been measured at 313.15 K and the first of them at 298.15 K too.