In this study, thermodynamic modeling
of mixtures including heterocyclic
compounds using the perturbed chain statistical associating fluid
theory (PC-SAFT) equation of state (EoS) is studied. The oxygen-,
nitrogen-, or sulfur-containing heterocyclic molecules are modeled
as nonassociating components. For some more aggregative associating
compounds with −OH (furfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol,
2-thiophenemethanol, and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural) or −NH (azetidine,
aziridine, pyrrole, pyrazole, pyrrolidine, pyrrolidone, piperidine,
morpholine, imidazole, piperazine, and n-methylpiperazine)
groups, two association sites are considered for each molecule. The
pure component parameters of the PC-SAFT EoS are adjusted to vapor
pressure and liquid density experimental data with average absolute
relative deviation of 0.88 and 0.77%, respectively. Using the obtained
parameters, the isobaric and isothermal phase behavior of binary systems
is studied over a wide range of thermodynamic conditions. The average
deviations between model calculations and experimental data for heterocycle
+ aromatics, heterocycle + cycloalkane, heterocycle + haloalkanes,
heterocycle + alcohol, heterocycle + heterocycle, heterocycle + organic
solvents, and heterocycle + hydrocarbon systems are about 1.79, 2.15,
1.03, 1.68, 2.81, 1.24, and 1.81% respectively. Furthermore, the solid–liquid
equilibria of heterocycle mixtures have been predicted by estimation
of melting and eutectic points over a wide range of compositions.
The second-order-derivative thermodynamic properties of heterocyclic
compounds including speed of sound (u
s) and heat capacity (C
p) have been also
predicted. The obtained results are in good agreement with the experimental
data.