Determination of water activities and osmotic and activity coefficients of the system NaCl–BaCl2–H2O at 298.15 K

Abstract The water activities of the mixed aqueous electrolyte NaCl–BaCl2(aq) are measured at total molalities from 0.25 mol kg−1 to about saturation for different ionic strength fractions (y) of NaCl with y=0.33,0.50,0.67. The results allow the deduction of osmotic coefficients. The experimental results are compared with the predictions of the Zdanovskii, Stokes, and Robinson (ZSR), Kusik and Meissner (KM), Robinson and Stokes (RS), Lietzke and Stoughton (LSII), Reilly, Wood, and Robinson (RWR), and Pitzer models. From these measurements, the Pitzer mixing ionic parameters are determined and used to predict the solute activity coefficients in the mixture. The excess Gibbs energy is also determined.