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Methanol losses to the hydrocarbon liquid phase are more difficult to predict. Solubility is a strong
function of both the water phase and hydrocarbon phase compositions(6.57). Figure 6. 1 9 shows solubility
of methanol in various hydrocarbon liquids: paraffin and mixtures of paraffins and toluene. The y-axis is
a distribution coefficient which is the mol fraction of methanol in the aqueous phase divided by the mol
fraction of methanol in the hydrocarbon phase. Lower values for the distribution coefficient indicate higher
hydrocarbon solubility. The use of a distribution coefficient to estimate methanol losses to the hydrocarbon
liquid phase is shown in Example 6.6

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