Dew and Bubble Point Properties of Air

Abstract

Four new ancillary functions for the calculation of pressures and densities of states at the bubble and dew points of air are presented. These functions were developed using experimental data and calculated values. The experimental data for the bubble and dew point pressures and densities of air are summarized and evaluated. In the absence of experimental data at high-pressure phase equilibrium states, a Leung-Griffiths model modified for ternary mixtures was used to calculate pseudo-data. This ternary mixture model was also used to calculate new values for the critical point, maxcondenbar and maxcondentherm for air. The calculated properties at the maxcondentherm were used as reducing parameters in the ancillary functions. Graphical comparisons of the ancillary equations to the experimental data and pseudo-data are presented to justify the estimated accuracies of the new ancillary functions. The equations presented here have been used to calculate dew and bubble point pressures and densities for the determination of the phase boundary for a wide-range equation of state for air treated as a pseudo-pure fluid.