Phase equilibria in mixtures containing alkanes and alcohols

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Phase equilibria in mixtures
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PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN MIXTURES
CONTAINING ALKANES AND ALCOHOLS
BY
ALl HASSAN DARWISH EL NIKHELI
B,Sc, AND M,Sc,
A THESIS
DOCTORA~
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE AWARD OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
OF THE LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
DECEMBER 1987
SUPERVISORS: DR. A.S. TEJA
DR. P. RICE
DR. A.O. FARAG
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DECLARATION
I declare that the following thesis is a record of
research work carried out by me, and that the thesis is
of my own composition. I also certify that neither this
thesis nor the original work contained therein has been
submitted to this or to any other institution for a
higher degree.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I have known Dr. Amyn S. Teja for several years
during which deep friendship has developed between us.
It started after I joined the University of Riyadh (later
King Saud University) to teach in its chemical engineer-
ing department. I decided to drop my graduate studies at
New York Polytech, N.Y., U.S.A. to work with him for my
Ph.D. degree at Loughborough University of Technology the
first time I met him and I continued to work with him
when he moved to Tech., Atlanta, U. S. A. , till
Georg~a
this thesis was completed this year. He is agreat man.
I owe to him my deep attraction to the subject of this
research. My gratitude and appreciation to him are
unlimited. His continuous guidance and inspiration
through all phases of this work make me for ever grateful
to him.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation also
to Dr. P. Rice for his supervision, patience and guid
ance. His help in resolving many difficulties which
occured during this work and his valuable discussions and
remarks are highly acknowledged.
My special thanks are to Dr. Ahmad Omar Farag for
his continuous encouragement and support to me during my
undergraduate and graduate studies and along my life. To
me he is like a father, and I owe him a lot.
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I wish to thank also Dr. S. Madani and Dr. M.
Soliman for their fruitful discussions and help.
Special thanks are also extended to Dr. G. Georgeton
for the many fruitful discussions during my work on this
thesis at GeorgA.a Institute of Technology, U.S.A., and
also to other graduate members of Dr. Teja's thermo-
w.
dynamic school. My deepest thanks are due to Dr.
Tawfik and his wife Marybeth for making my work and my
stay in Georgea Tech quite comfortable.
I learned a lot about VLE measurement at' the
Institute of Thermodynamics, University of Berlin, .West
Germany. Thanks to Dr. H. Knapp for giving me this good
opportunity for learning from him.
I thank also the Research Cent er of the College of
Engineering at KSU for encouraging research work on VLE
measurements. I also thank Dr. A. Sharaf and M. Abul
Kasim for their continuous help in my computer work. I
wish to thank M. Jamil for the effort and patience spent
in typing my thesis and M. Al Sodsi for doing the draw
ings in this thesis.
My mother and my family with their sincere love have
always encouraged me to complete this work. I am grate
ful to all of them. My wife stood beside me with kind
ness and love during all aspects of this thesis and
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during hard times of my illness which extended along this
work, for her I will always be indebted and grateful.
Finally I would like to apologize to and at the same time
thank my son Omar and my daughter Ghada for the time I
should have spent with them and for the vacations I spent
far from them doing this work. It is for them, my
parents, and my wife that this thesis is dedicated.