TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Prediction of Minimum Flash Point Behaviour for Binary Mixtures
JO  - Process safety and environmental protection
A1  - Vidal, M.
A1  - Rogers, W.J.
A1  - Mannan, M.S.
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
VL  - 84
IS  - 1
N2  - Flash point is a primary property used to determine the fire and explosion hazards of a liquid. Minimum flash point behaviour (MFPB) is exhibited when the flash point of a mixture is below the flash points of the individual components. The identification of this behaviour is critical, because a hazardous situation results from taking the lowest component flash point value as the mixture flash point. Even for experimental measurements, an estimate of the mixture flash point is needed. A procedure to estimate the flash point of binary mixtures is discussed. Predictions for the aqueous mixtures methanol-water and ethanol-water are presented and compared with experimental values as well as for the flammable mixtures octane-ethanol and octane-1-butanol, which exhibit MFPB. Quantum chemical calculation methods such as COSMO-RS and theoretical methods such as UNIFAC were evaluated for the prediction of MFPB mixtures.<p /> 
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SN  - 0957-5820
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1205/psep.05041
ID  - ref1
ER  -