Determining the saturation vapour pressures of keto-dicarboxylic acids in aqueous solutions

A two-compartment binary mass transport model with group contribution methods parametrizations for the physical properties of the organic acids (UNIFAC Dortmund method for activity coefficients, GCVOL-OL-60 method for the pure liquid acid density, GC-MG method for the pure acid surface tension at room temperature, Fuller et al. method for the diffusion coefficients) was used to interpret the evaporation experiments of 100 nm sized ketodicarboxylic acid aqueous solutions droplets at ambient temperature. The determined values for the saturation vapour pressure of liquid 2-keto-glutaric acid are in the order of 10−5 Pa.