Phase-Behavior of Carbon-Dioxide and Hydrocarbon Mixtures

Abstract

Upper critical solution temperatures, gas-liquid critical temperatures and solubility data of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon mixtures have been used to obtain a parameter, ξ, characterizing the interaction between pairs of unlike molecules in the mixture. The calculation of ξ values involved the use of the van der Waals one-fluid model together with the Guggenhiem and Redlich-Kwong equations of state.

There is a discrepancy of several percent between ξ values calculated from the three sources of data. Trends in the value of ξ are discussed briefly.