Liquid-liquid equilibrium data of limonene + octanal + solvent systems

1,3-butanediol has been tested as solvent for essential oil desterpenation process. For this reason, liquid-liquid equilibrium data of the system limonene+octanal+1,3-butanediol have been obtained at two different temperatures. These data were satisfactorily correlated with NRTL activity coefficient model in order to obtain the binary interaction parameters of the mixture. Besides, an extraction column was simulated, by using ASPEN PLUS ® software, to determine the influence of several variables on the amount and purity of the recovered limonene. 1