potassium formate

Phase equilibria and critical phenomena in the ternary system potas­ sium formate - water - n.butoxyethanol, where a constituent binary liquid system is characterized by phase separation with a closed delamination region, were studied by means of the visual-polythermal method within 25-170°C. The temperature dependences of the com­ positions of the mixtures corresponding to the critical solubility points in the delamination region were determined.

A technique of laboratory  synthesis  of potassium formate has  been developed. Phase equlibria in mixtures  of the components  of the binary  system potassium formate - water in the range from -70 to +170°C were investigated by  the visual-polythermal method. For the first time the phase diagram of the specified system has  been con­ structed and the coordinates  of an eutectic  point has  been estab­ lished. The formation of a crystalline hydrate КНСООИ.бНгО incon­ gruous  melting at -9.2°C was  found in this  system.