Unlike Lennard-Jones parameters for vapor-liquid equilibria

Abstract The influence of the unlike Lennard–Jones (LJ) parameters on vapor–liquid equilibria of mixtures is investigated and the performance of eleven combining rules is assessed. In the first part of this work, the influence of the unlike LJ size and energy parameter on vapor pressure, bubble density and dew point composition is systematically studied for the mixtures CO + C2H6 and N2 + C3H6, respectively. It is found that mixture vapor pressure depends strongly both on the size and the energy parameter whereas the bubble density depends mostly on the size parameter and the dew point composition is rather insensitive to both parameters. In preceding work, unlike LJ parameters were adjusted to experimental binary vapor–liquid equilibria for 44 real mixtures. On the basis of these results, in the second part of the work eleven combining rules are assessed regarding their predictive power. A comparison with the adjusted unlike LJ parameters determined from the fit shows that none of the eleven combining rules yields appropriate parameters in general. To obtain an accurate mixture model, the unlike dispersive interaction should therefore be adjusted to experimental binary data. The results from the present work indicate that it is sufficient to use the Lorenz rule for the unlike LJ size parameter and to fit the unlike LJ energy parameter to the vapor pressure.

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