In
this paper, the cell potential method is used to determine the
average activity coefficients of the NaBr–Na2SO4–H2O ternary system at 318.15 K. The ion-selective
electrode and electrolyte solution are used to form a liquid-free
battery. The ionic strength in the mixed solution is in the range
0.01–1.0 mol·kg–1 with different ionic
strength fractions of Na2SO4, that is, y
b = (0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8). First, in a
single salt solution, the response curve of Nernst can be obtained
according to the Nernst equation. The standard cell potential E
0 = 251.03, electrode response slope k = 27.124, and linear correlation coefficient R
2 = 0.9998 are obtained in this work. In the same way,
the average activity coefficients of NaBr in mixed electrolyte solution
at 318.15 K were also determined by using the Nernst equation. Finally,
the mixed ion interaction parameters θBr, SO4
and φNa, Br, SO4
of Pitzer
equations can be fitted by the multilinear regression method combined
with the average activity coefficients of mixed salt solution. In
addition, the osmotic coefficients, water activity, excess Gibbs free
energy, and activity coefficient of Na2SO4 can
also be calculated using Pitzer equations based on the fitted θBr, SO4
and φNa, Br, SO4.
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