Abstract

The work aims is predict the azeotropes' position in refrigerant mixtures using the Perturbed Hard Sphere Chain (PHSC) equation of state (EoS). The vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) of seventeen binary refrigerant mixtures has been correlated using two model-adjustable parameters. The results show that the proposed model can calculate the bubble and dew points of binary systems, accurately. The average ARD value of binary VLE calculations has been obtained 1.28 %. The azeotropes pressure and composition of binary mixtures have been predicted using the PHSC EoS with the average ARD values of 1.043 % and 2.23 %, respectively. The maximum relative deviation has been observed for R717+R125 systems with two azeotropes points; ARDx=12.2 %. The performance of the PHSC EoS has been evaluated by predicting the azeotropes position of ternary mixtures. The PHSC EoS results have been compared to three cubic-based EoSs containing the PR-vdW, PR-BM, and PR-MHV2-NRTL models. The results show that the PHSC EoS can predict the ternary VLE data and azeotropes position satisfactory. The relative absolute deviation does not exceed 1.7 % for the azeotropes pressure. The PHSC EoS can be used as a robust and efficient model for the prediction of the azeotropes' position in binary and ternary refrigerant mixtures. Prediction of azeotropic composition helps us to find promising refrigerant candidates in the pre-design stage of the desired apparatus.

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