Water activities of the CsCl–MgCl2–H2O ternary system and its sub-binary systems were elaborately measured by an isopiestic method at 298.15 K. The solubility of this ternary system at 298.15 K was also measured by two different methods, namely isothermal method and Flow-Cloud-Point method. The solubilities measured by the two different methods were consistent with each other. A Pitzer model was used to represent the thermodynamic properties and calculate the solubility isotherms for the CsCl–MgCl2–H2O ternary system at 298.15 K. Both the equal water activity lines and the solubility isotherms are calculated with parameters reported in literature. It was found that only the calculated equal water activity lines with the parameters reported by Scharge et al. are consistent with the experimental values of this work. However, all the calculated solubility isotherms deviated from the experimental data in this work. New set of ternary parameters were obtained by fitting the water activities and solubility data of this work. Using the new parameters, the calculated equal water activity lines and solubility isotherms agreed with experimental values measured in this work.

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Water activities in the ternary system CsCl–MgCl2–H2O and its sub-binary systems at 323.15 K were elaborately measured by an isopiestic method. Moreover, the solubility of the CsCl–MgCl2–H2O system at 323.15 K was also measured by the flow-cloud-point method. A Pitzer model was used to predict the measured water activity and solubility data. The binary parameters for the CsCl–H2O system at 323.15 K were obtained by fitting the measured water activities for this binary system. The calculated water activity and solubility isotherms for the CsCl–MgCl2–H2O system at 323.15 K, with binary parameters only, deviated from the experimental values. This means that it is insufficient with binary parameters only to predict the water activity and calculate the solubility isotherms of the CsCl–MgCl2–H2O system at 323.15 K. The calculated solubility isotherms with both binary and mixing parameters, obtained by fitting the measured water activity, also deviated from experimental values. A new set of reasonable ternary parameters for the CsCl–MgCl2–H2O system was obtained by fitting the measured water activity and solubility data of this work. The calculated solubility isotherms with these parameters agreed with experimental results.

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