Vapor-liquid equilibrium predictions of refrigerant mixtures from a cubic equation of state with a GE-EoS mixing rule

A modified excess Gibbs energy model which is based on the local composition concept and assigns a single energy parameter per pair of components, is incorporated into the G(E)-EoS thermodynamic formalism for vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) calculations of simple and complex refrigerant mixtures. One temperature set of data close to 273 K is used to obtain the model's parameters, which are used to extrapolate the VLE at other temperatures and pressures. A one-parameter form of the model based on the Wong-Sandler mixing rule is presented for several simple systems. The physical significance of the model's energy parameter is connected to the preference of the mixture for like to unlike interactions. The model is applied for VLE predictions of the ternary system R14-R23-R13, and the results are compared to calculations using the 3PWS model [H. Orbey, S.I. Sandler, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 34 (1995) 2520-2525] and the van der Waals mixing rule. Modelling of a few complex systems with only three data points given at each temperature is shown with a two parameter version of our model on the basis of the Huron-Vidal mixing rule. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.