IMPROVED BINARY INTERACTION PARAMETERS USING BEE ALGORITHM AND NRTL MODEL FOR TERNARY SYSTEMS

Bee algorithm (BA) has been utilized to estimate the binary interaction parameters from liquid-liquid equilibria data for three ternary systems (water + acetic acid + methyl isobutyl ketone), (water + acetic acid + diethyl ketone) and (water + acetic acid + triethylamine), and its applicability for NRTL thermodynamic model in MATLAB programming has been demonstrated. Inputs of this program are tie-line experimental data of studied systems and activity distribution of components in infinite dilution and output of program is the binary interaction parameters for these multi-component systems. The root mean square deviation value is determined for obtaining the quality of the correlation.