CORRELATION OF CRITICAL LOCI FOR FLUID MIXTURES

The hard-sphere three-parameter equation of state proposed in our previous investigation was applied to correlate binary critical loci of alkane-alkane, aromatic-aromatic, hydrocarbon-inorganic gas and systems containing oxygenated hydrocarbons including those exhibiting type Ⅲ behaviors as classified by van Konynenberg and Scott. A new procedure was also presented which simplified mathematical manipulations and permitted the reduction of the computation time.Results were compared with those obtained by Patel-Teja equation with temperature-dependent binary interaction parameters. Significant improvements were achieved by the proposed equation with temperature-dependent parameters.In addition parameters obtained from the critical locus calculations were used to predict vapor-liquid equilibria of hydrogen-carbon monoxide and hydrogen-carbon dioxide systems. Prediction accuracies were found to be very satisfactory.