AN IMPROVED PENG-ROBINSON EQUATION OF STATE WITH A NEW TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT ATTRACTIVE TERM

An improved form of the Peng-Robinson cubic equation of state has been proposed. The temperature dependence of the attractive term has been modified so as to accurately represent vapor pressures of several fluids with large acentric factors from triple point to close to the critical point. The prediction of saturated liquid volume is also improved by introducing volume translation term in the equation of state. Comparisons of theoretical results with experimental data are made for the vapor/liquid phase equilibria of 44 pure fluids including nonpolar, polar and associating fluids. Our results show that the modified Peng-Robinson equation of state can represent accurately saturated vapor pressures of the fluids investigated in this paper, and it is more accurate than the Peng-Robinson equation of state and its earlier modifications due to Stryjek and Vera (1986) and Twu et al. (1995rpar;. Incorporation of the volume translation term in the equation of state has been found to improve the accuracy of saturated liquid volume significantly.