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The solubility of carbon dioxide in pure methanol, and in aqueous solutions of methanol, was computed using the Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo (GEMC) technique for 313, 354, and 395 K at pressures up to 9 MPa. Three solvent mixtures (of methanol and water) with methanol mole fractions of 10, 50, and 75 mole percent (in the gas-free solvent mixture) were studied. The Monte Carlo simulations were conducted in an isothermal−isobaric ensemble applying effective pair potentials for the pure components from literature. Common mixing rules without any adjustable binary interaction parameters were used to describe the interactions between the mixture components. Overall, a good agreement between simulation results and recently published experimental data is achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New experimental results are reported for the influence of two single salts (sodium chloride and sodium sulfate) on the solubility of ammonia in liquid mixtures of water and methanol at 353 and 393 K. The mole fractions of methanol in the (gas-free and salt-free) solvent mixture of water and methanol were about 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 in the experiments with sodium chloride and about 0.05 and 0.25 in the experiments with sodium sulfate. The molality of the salt varied between about 0.25 and 2 (0.15 and 1) mol/kg of the solvent mixture in the systems with sodium chloride (sodium sulfate). The maximum molality of ammonia was about 6.7 mol/kg of (water + methanol) for both temperatures and for both salts. The maximum total pressure above the liquid solutions was about 0.3 MPa (1 MPa) in the system containing sodium chloride at 353 K (393 K) and about 0.2 MPa (0.7 MPa) in the system with sodium sulfate at 353 K (393 K). The experimental results are used to test a thermodynamic framework which allows the influence of both single strong electrolytes on the solubility of ammonia in liquid mixtures of water and methanol to be predicted. The prediction results are in good agreement with the new experimental data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]