Experiments and thermodynamic models for ternary liquid–liquid equilibrium systems of water + tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol + solvents at different temperatures

In order to extract and refine tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) from water, this work obtained the liquid–liquid equilibrium (LLE) data of THFA in the aqueous solution using 4-Methyl-2-pentanone (MIBK) and 4-Methyl-2-pentanol (MIBC) at 303.2 K, 313.2 K, and 323.2 K under 101.3 kPa. The distribution coefficient ( D ) and selectivity coefficient ( S ) were used to evaluate the effect of extracting THFA from an aqueous solution, and it is found that both two solvents are excellent for the extraction of THFA. The Othmer-Tobias and Hand equations were used to verify the reliability of the LLE data with the linear coefficient was greater than 0.99%. The NRTL and UNIQUAC models successfully correlated the experimental data with the RMSD% values less than 0.57% and 0.56%, respectively. The GUI-MATLAB tool was used to verify the excellent reliability of the regression parameters.