Prediction of vapor-liquid equilibria at high pressures using activity coefficients at infinite dilution

Abstract

A modified procedure of using the Huron-Vidal mixing rule based on available activity coefficients at infinite dilution at low pressures is shown to be useful for making vapor-liquid equilibrium predictions for non ideal mixtures at high temperatures and pressures. We compare the performances of this mixing rule (called HVID model), coupled with the SRK equation of state and a reduced UNIQUAC model, with those of two other equation of state mixing rules, one by Dahl and Michelsen (MHV2) and another by Wong and Sandler (WS). Six binary systems are used in this study, and we find that the errors in the predicted pressure with the new mixing rule are, on the whole, less than those obtained when using the MHV2 model. Compared with the WS mixing rule, the HVID model performs slightly better.