A crossover‐UNIQUAC model for critical and noncritical LLE calculations |
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| Authors: | Khalil Parvaneh Reza Haghbakhsh Alireza Shariati Cor J. Peters |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Natural Gas Engineering Dept., School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran;2. Chemical Engineering Dept., The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;3. Separation Technology Group, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | A new model, named the crossover‐UNIQUAC model, has been proposed based on the crossover procedure for predicting constant‐pressure liquid–liquid equilibria (LLE). In this manner, critical fluctuations were incorporated into the classical UNIQUAC equation. Coexistence curves were estimated for systems having a diverse range of asymmetries. These systems included the LLE of five different mixtures, composed of nitrobenzene with one of the members of the alkane homologous family (either pentane, octane, decane, dodecane, or tetradecane), as well as an extra system having a different chemical nature, namely the mixture of n‐perfluorohexane and hexane, to further check the validity of the proposed approach. Using these nonideal mixtures, the validity of the new model was investigated within wide ranges, covering near‐critical to regions falling far away from the critical point. The graphical trends, as well as the quantitative comparison with experimental data indicated the good agreement of the proposed model results with the experimental data. A maximum AARD% value of 3.97% was obtained in calculating molar compositions by the proposed model for such challenging systems covering noncritical, as well as critical regions. In addition, to show the strength of the proposed crossover approach to describe properties other than LLE, molar heat capacities were investigated for the system of nitrobenzene + dodecane. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 3094–3103, 2015 |
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| Keywords: | UNIQUAC model critical phenomena liquid– liquid equilibria crossover procedure heat capacity |
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