“…A number of authors have put major effort into the design of reliable equations of state for the system H 2 O-NaCl (e.g., Haas, 1970;Rogers and Pitzer, 1982;Pitzer et al, 1984;Bischoff and Rosenbauer, 1985;Clarke and Glew, 1985;Pitzer and Pabalan, 1986;Pitzer and Schreiber, 1987;Gallagher and Levelt Sengers, 1988;Tanger and Pitzer, 1989;Lvov and Wood, 1990;Archer, 1992;Anderko and Pitzer, 1993;Pitzer and Sterner, 1993;Pitzer and Jiang, 1996;Povodyrev et al, 1997;Palliser and McKibbin, 1998a,b,c;Thiéry and Dubessy, 1998;Anisimov and Sengers, 2000;Oscarson et al, 2001Oscarson et al, , 2004Myers et al, 2003;Sedlbauer and Wood, 2004;Liu et al, 2006), but the range of validity of most of these is too restricted to make them useful for flow simulations that investigate systems over wide ranges of temperature, pressure, composition, and phase state of the fluid. The only model that covers the whole T, P, and X NaCl range of interest (Palliser and McKibbin, 1998a,b,c) shows unphysical features in some parts of the phase diagram, including negative heat capacities of saline fluids near the critical temperature of water.…”