ABSTRACT
In 1992, Eastman Chemical Company produced about 11% of the 3.8 billion pounds of acetic acid that were produced in the United States and it contributed to the 3.9% annual growth rate of acetic acid production. Because of the great industrial importance of acetic acid, the literature contains a large amount of engineering design data related to acetic acid and its aqueous solutions; however, the publications are in several different languages, they often appear in journals that are not readily available, and they usually contain only a small number of measured data points for limited ranges of pressure, temperature, and concentration. To extend the usefulness of several important types of design data to engineers, the objectives of this project were to acquire the available data, to determine as well as possible those data sets which are most reliable in cases where there are conflicting data, and then to reduce the data to mathematical models to facilitate computerized design methods. The mathematical models chosen for this work were based on theoretically sound equations or wellestablished empirical equations so that reliable interpolation and extrap-
olation of the available data can be accomplished with a high level of confidence. In most cases, the ranges of validity and the accuracies of the equations have been defined.
