The experimental data of the solubility
curve and the tie line
for the ternary system containing compounds of water, acetic acid,
and 1-octanol were studied over the temperature range (298 to 328)
K and atmospheric pressure. This ternary system showed the behavior
of type 1 liquid–liquid equilibrium (LLE) systems. Also, to
test the tie line consistency, the obtained experimental data were
correlated with Othmer-Tobias and Han equations. Distribution coefficients,
selectivity factors, and percentage of extraction were determined
to evaluate the extracting capacity of the solvent. Interaction parameters
of the nonrandom two-liquid (NRTL) and universal quasichemical (UNIQUAC)
thermodynamic models were estimated using a genetic algorithm (GA)
and particle swarm optimization (PSO) which are evolutionary optimization
methods. The mean RMSD values between the calculated and experimental
mass fractions of the NRTL and UNIQUAC models using GA were 0.0047
and 0.0089, and using PSO were 0.0023 and 0.0042, respectively. The
RMSD values indicate that the NRTL and UNIQUAC models are suitable
for describing the phase behavior of the studied LLE systems and the
accuracy of the PSO method is slightly more than that of the GA.