International Journal of Safety
- Volume 8 Issue 2
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- Pages.15-19
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- 2009
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- 1598-7302(pISSN)
The Prediction of Lower Flash Points by Optimization Method
- Ha, Dong-Myeong (Department of Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, Semyung University) ;
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Lee, Sung-Jin
(Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Semyung University)
- Received : 2009.07.02
- Accepted : 2009.11.10
- Published : 2009.12.31
Abstract
The flash point is the most widely used flammability property for the evaluation of the flammability hazard of combustible liquid mixtures. In this paper, the reported flash points for the the binary systems, ethylbenzene+n-butanol and ethylbenzene+n-hexanol were correlated by the optimization method. The optimization method based on the van Laar and Wilson equations were compared with the Raoult's law. The calculated values based on the optimization method were found to be better than those based on the Raoult's law.