General correlation model for some physical properties of saturated pure fluids

In this work, we use a general expression to accurately correlate the liquid density, the vaporization enthalpy, the surface tension, and the isobaric heat capacity of a saturated liquid versus temperature along the whole coexistence curve. The general expression used is the same for the four thermodynamic properties, and uses both critical and triple point values as reference. As representative examples of the use of the model, results are given for a set of 22 pure substances. We find that this general expression correlates the data with smaller or similar overall deviations when compared with other published models whose number of coefficients are the same or greater. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.