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[tbreneman]

working on a project for heat transfer/condensing of a vapor that is 2/3 phenol, 1/3 water vapor. Looking for more information on the azeotrope that is formed with water and phenol, and how the azeotrope reacts under different pressures.

[MrShorty]

Looking at my old print copies of DeChema's VLE databank, there appears to be several literature sources for VLE for water/phenol. The best way to approach this problem will be to find a reliable source for this literature data and use the measured data to back out parameters for your favorite activity coefficient equation. Then you can calculate the azeotrope at different temperatures/pressures to see what the model predicts it will do.