Abstract
The chapter presents fundamentals and advantages of continuous thermodynamics and some important analytical expressions for distribution functions. The chapter shows how continuous thermodynamics can be applied to an equation of state, particularly in the field of phase-equilibrium calculations. Continuous thermodynamics is immediately based on continuous distribution functions, which describe the composition of the polydisperse mixture. In the past fifteen years, considerable progress has been achieved in applications of the continuous method including the application to equations of state. It is likely that this progress is due to two factors. First, continuous thermodynamics results in mathematical simplifications, which can considerably reduce computer-time requirements in chemical engineering. Second, this method is suitable for describing the composition of an experimentally characterized polydisperse mixture.
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