Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is one of the most promising natural refrigerants that can be employed as an alternative to hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), due to its low global warming potential (GWP). Nevertheless, CO 2 presents several technical problems when employed as a working fluid in refrigeration systems. In particular, the selection of the most suitable lubricant for each application is far from being resolved. The thermodynamic behavior of a CO 2 + lubricant system must be well-known for a correct oil selection. This work is part of a research project to study the solubility of CO 2 in commercial oils and their precursors. Here, solubility measurements of CO 2 in pure pentaerythritol tetrabutyrate (PEC4) between 243 K and 343 K are presented and compared with miscibility data of CO 2 in pentaerythritol tetrahexanoate (PEC6) and pentaerythritol tetraoctanoate (PEC8). The experimental data were correlated with a thermodynamic model based on a cubic equation of state with Huron-Vidal mixing rules and the UNIQUAC equation for the excess Gibbs energy at infinite pressure.