Recent applications of the cubic-plus-association (CPA) equation of state to industrially important systems

The cubic-plus-association equation of state (CPA EoS) has been extended to phase equilibria of industrially important binary mixtures of alcohol-hydrocarbon, alcohol/glycol-water systems and mixtures with organic acids. The ability of the model to predict different types of equilibria was tested. Very satisfactory VLE and SLE prediction is achieved for alcohol-hydrocarbon systems, while the sensitivity of the LLE to the interaction parameter is demonstrated. It has been shown that CPA can perform VLE/LLE/SLE calculations in the case of alcohol-hydrocarbon binary systems with a single interaction parameter. Satisfactory SLE correlation of alcohol/glycol-water systems is achieved using a single interaction parameter over an extended temperature range. Moreover, satisfactory prediction was achieved for the multiphase equilibria of the mixture acetic acid-water-hexane based solely on binary interaction parameters. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.