ON THE COMPOSITION-DEPENDENT INTERACTION PARAMETERS IN EQUATIONS OF STATE

Composition-dependent interaction parameters have been applied to the calculation of vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE) in mixtures containing components of different chemical nature. Binary VLE have been correlated and ternary VLE have been predicted from binary data using five different mixing rules. Binary data can be accurately correlated for systems with moderate deviations from ideality using mixing rules with two binary parameters. For very strongly nonideal mixtures three binary parameters are needed. For the prediction of ternary VLE from binary information only the mixing rules of Panagiotopoulos and Reid (1986) and Schwartzentruber et al. (1987) are reliable. For most systems the quality of predicting ternary data is comparable to the quality of correlating binary data. Significant deviations are noted only for strongly nonideal systems close to phase separation. In these cases it is recommended to use models incorporating association in an explicit form. KEYWORDS Equations of state Mixing rules Multicomponent Vapor-liquid equilibria.