A new generation solution model for predicting thermodynamic properties of a multicomponent system from binaries

During the past 3 decades, all solution models that were used to predict thermodynamic properties of a multicomponent system from binaries improperly assumed that the selected binary compositions in a model are independent of the practical system to be treated. This assumption causes problems both in symmetrical and asymmetrical models. In this article, a new solution model has been suggested, which gets rid of this traditional way and assumes that the selected binary compositions should be closely related to the system considered. After introducing a new concept, the “similarity coefficient,” the relation between the selected binary compositions and the composition of the multicomponent system is established and a new model is generated. This new generation model is more reasonable in theoretical considerations, more reliable in practical use, and more realistic in computerization for estimating thermodynamic properties and calculating phase diagrams in a multicomponent system.