Solubilities of salts in the ternary systems NaCl + CaCl2 + H2O and KCl + CaCl2 + H2O at 75°C

The solubility in the NaCl-CaCl2-H2O and KCl-CaCl2-H2O systems were determined at 75°C and the phase diagrams and the diagram of physicochemical property vs composition were plotted. One invariant point, two univariant curves, and two crystallization zones, corresponding to potassium chloride, dihydrate (CaCl2 · 2H2O) showed up in the phase diagrams of the ternary systems. The mixing parameters θM, Ca and ΨM, Ca, Cl (M = Na or K) and equilibrium constant K sp were evaluated in NaCl-CaCl2-H2O and KCl-CaCl2-H2O systems by least-squares optimization procedure, in which the single-salt Pitzer parameters of NaCl, KCl, and CaCl2 β(0), β(1), β(2), and C Φ were directly calculated from the literature. The results obtained were in good agreement with the experimental data.