Applicability of corresponding-states group-contribution methods for the estimation of surface tension of multicomponent liquid mixtures at 298.15 K

Corresponding-states group-contribution methods (CSGC-ST1 and CSGC-ST2) have been applied to four binary liquid mixtures (propyl acetate + o-xylene, propyl acetate + m-xylene, propyl acetate + p-xylene and propyl acetate + ethyl benzene); two ternary (benzene + cyclohexane + toluene and n-hexane + cyclohexane + benzene) and two quaternary liquid mixtures (pentane + hexane + cyclohexane + benzene and pentane + hexane + benzene + toluene) at 298.15 K. In this work, the CSGC-ST2 method is modified and extended to multicomponent liquid mixtures. The excess magnitudes of surface tension were also calculated and graphs were plotted using Redlich-Kister method. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.