Equations of State for Technical Applications. II. Results for Nonpolar Fluids

New functional forms have been developed for multiparameter equations of state for non- and weakly polar fluids and for polar fluids. The resulting functional forms, which were established with an optimization algorithm which considers data sets for different fluids simultaneously, are suitable as a basis for equations of state for a broad variety of fluids. The functional forms were designed to fulfill typical demands of advanced technical applications with regard to the achieved accuracy. They are numerically very stable and their substance-specific coefficients can easily be fitted to restricted data sets. In this way, a fast extension of the group of fluids for which accurate empirical equations of state are available becomes possible. This article deals with the results found for the non- and weakly polar fluids methane, ethane, propane, isobutane, n-butane, n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, argon, oxygen, nitrogen, ethylene, cyclohexane, and sulfur hexafluoride. The substance-specific parameters of the new equations of state are given as well as statistical and graphical comparisons with experimental data. General features of the new class of equations of state such as their extrapolation behavior and their numerical stability have been discussed in a preceding article. Results for typical polar fluids will be discussed in a subsequent article.