A group contribution (GC) method combined with a SAFT equation of state (EOS) [Tamouza et al., Fluid
Phase Equilib.
2004, 222
−
223, 67 and 2005, 228
−
229, 409] is extended here to model vapor−liquid phase
equilibria of binary mixtures of H2 + n-alkanes and CO2 + n-alkanes. Modeling these systems requires
binary interaction parameters k
ij
that are estimated here in the same spirit as pure compound GC−SAFT
parameters, i.e., through a specific group contribution method. Molecule−group interaction parameters (k
H
2
,CH
2
,
k
H
2
,CH
3
, k
CO
2
,CH
2
, and k
CO
2
,CH
3
) are used rather than molecule−molecule interaction parameters. Two versions
of SAFT are tested here: the Perturbed-Chain SAFT (PC−SAFT) [Gross and Sadowski, Ind. Eng. Chem.
Res.
2000, 40, 1244] and Variable-Range SAFT (VR−SAFT) [Gil-Villegas et al., J. Chem. Phys.
1997, 106,
4168]. The results are very encouraging, particularly for predicting binary mixtures of CO2 and heavy n-alkanes.
Mixtures that contain H2 are modeled here with deviations that compare well with those of the classically
used Grayson−Streed model.
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