“…The reliability of experimentally measured tie-line data can be ascertained by applying Othmer-Tobias and Hand equations, ,, given by eqs and , respectively: ln ( 1 − w 3 II w 3 II ) = italica 1 + italicb 1 .25em ln ( 1 − w 1 I w 1 I ) ln true( w 2 w 3 true) II = italica 2 + italicb 2 .25em ln true( w 2 w 1 true) normalI where a 1 , b 1 and a 2 , b 2 are the fitting parameters of the Othmer-Tobias and Hand correlations, respectively.…”