Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.64, No.4, 1446-1453, 2019
Thermodynamic Modeling of Triglycerides using PC-SAFT
Vapor pressures for the saturated triglycerides (TGs) tricaprylin, tricaprin, and liquid densities of tricaprylin were experimentally determined. TG pure-component parameters for the Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (PC-SAFT) were fitted to that data and validated with densities of the binary mixtures octanol/tricaprin and octanol/trilaurin at different temperatures and TG mass fractions. Furthermore, pure-component parameters of the unsaturated TGs triolein and trilinolein were estimated by a group-contribution method. Correctly predicted solid-liquid equilibria of mixtures containing the before-mentioned TGs revealed that intermolecular interactions among TGs are quantitatively described by PC-SAFT.