Effect of Dissolved Cadmium Chloride and Ammonium Chloride Salts on the Enthalpy of Mixing of the Methanol + Benzene System at 303.15 K

The effect of two dissolved inorganic salts, cadmium chloride CdCl2 and ammonium chloride NH4Cl, on the excess enthalpy of mixing (HE) of the binary system methanol + benzene measured at 303.15 K using an isothermal displacement calorimeter with vapor space is investigated in the present work. Compared to the salt-free system, a decreasing trend in the endothermicity of HE values is significant with the addition of CdCl2 salt but the decrease in the HE values is insignificantly smaller with the addition of NH4Cl salt. The experimental values of the enthalpy of mixing are fitted into a Redlich-Kister equation and the deviations in the values and the parameters are reported. The importance of the solute-solvent interactions and the solvent-solvent interactions are demonstrated from the increasing excess enthalpy of mixing values in the positive direction with the increase of salt concentration.