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Aspen Physical Property System - Physical Property Models

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Gibbs free energy departure:<br />

The following thermodynamic conditions must be satisfied:<br />

Hard-chain Fluids and Chain Connectivity<br />

In PC-SAFT model, a molecule is modeled as a chain molecule by a series of<br />

freely-jointed tangent spheres. The contribution from hard-chain fluids as a<br />

reference system consists of two parts, a nonbonding contribution (i.e., hardsphere<br />

mixtures prior to bonding to form chains) and a bonding contribution<br />

due to chain formation:<br />

where is the mean segment in the mixture, � hs is the contribution from<br />

hard-sphere mixtures on a per-segment basis, and � chain is the contribution<br />

due to chain formation. Both and � hs are well-defined for mixtures<br />

containing polymers, including copolymers; they are given by the following<br />

equations:<br />

where mi�, �i�, and �i� are the segment number, the segment diameter, and<br />

the segment energy parameter of the segment type � in the copolymer<br />

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