A data weighting method derived from analysis of the distillation column design relation(s) is used on several experimental vapor−liquid equilibrium (VLE) sets of data for estimating the interaction pair parameters of two local-composition models (NRTL and Wilson). It is shown that process equations can provide insights on the requisite objective function(s) to obtain parameters more suited to a particular design intent.
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