. Extension of the group contribution NRTL-PRA EoS for the modeling of mixtures containing light gases and alcohols with water and salts. Fluid Phase Equilibria, Elsevier, 2018, 458, pp.194-210. 10
AbstractThe offshore exploitation of petroleum fluids in normal conditions of pressure and temperature of transport and in presence of salt water is concerned with the prevention of gas hydrate formation, generally thanks to continuous injection of inhibitors, or punctual injection of methanol in start-up and shut-down operations. Hence, models of interest should provide both, satisfactory phase equilibrium estimations of hydrocarbon and alcohol mixtures with water and reliable predictions of their behavior in presence of salts.In this work, the NRTL-PRA EoS is extended to the prediction of phase equilibria in mixtures containing strong electrolytes. The proposed model assumes that the a and b parameters of the cubic EoS only depend on the solvent mole fractions (salt-free), while the E EoS g excess Gibbs energy describes all the interactions between solvents and ions with only two contributions: the SMR term, specific of "Short and Middle Range" interactions between solvents and salts, and the LR relation proposed by Pitzer-Debye-Hückel, for the description of "Long Range" electrostatic interactions. The proposed electrolyte version of the NRTL-PRA model was successfully extended to the modeling of phase behavior of mixtures of light gases at high pressures (methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide) and alcohols (methanol, ethanol and 1-propanol) with water and salts (mainly, ternary mixtures containing sodium chloride). As far as possible, results were compared with those provided, for the same systems, by other literature models (cubic Eos, SAFT and CPA equations).