“…Other studies of ternary mixtures include those of Yang et al [23] for the system methane/n-butane/ n-octane, Uribe-Vargas and Trejo [24] for the system methane/n-hexane/n-decane and Blanco et al [25] who determined dew points of the ternary system methane/ethane/butane. As concerns the study of phase equilibria of multicomponent alkane mixtures, previous results have been published by Daridon et al [26] reporting phase behaviour of multicomponent mixtures composed of methane/n-decane/heavy fraction, the heavy fraction contained n-alkanes ranging from noctadecane to n-triacontane, Gonzalpour et al [27] analysed the vapour-liquid equilibrium of a 5component synthetic gas condensate containing methane/n-propane/n-pentane/n-decane/nhexadecane, Mørch et al [28] determined dew points of five synthetic natural gas (SNG) mixtures containing ethane/propane/i-butane/n-butane/n-pentane, Nourozieh et al [29] reported vapourliquid equilibrium data of the ternary system methane/n-decane/n-octadecane, Pauly et al [30,31] measured the phase equilibrium data of multicomponent systems composed of methane plus a heavy fraction which ranged from n-tridecane to n-docosane, Shariati et al [5,32] + which included alkanes, cycloalkanes, and aromatics, whereas Fenghour et al [33] determined bubble points of the multicomponent mixture composed of methane/n-butane/n-heptane/n-hexadecane.…”