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Modeling<br />

Figures III.16, III.17 <strong>and</strong> III.18 present P-x diagrams where experimental data for<br />

the binary mixtures CO2/perfluoro-n-octane, CO2/perfluoromethylcyclohexane <strong>and</strong><br />

CO2/perfluorodecalin respectively are compared against the soft-SAFT calculations. It can<br />

be observed that the agreement between the experimental data <strong>and</strong> the description provided<br />

by the soft-SAFT model with <strong>and</strong> without the polar term are both excellent for the three<br />

mixtures, at all conditions studied.<br />

P / MPa<br />

12<br />

10<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1<br />

x, y CO2<br />

Figure III.16. Vapor-liquid equilibrium of CO2/perfluoro-n-octane system at 293.15K, 323.15K<br />

<strong>and</strong> 353.15K. Symbols represent experimental data measured in this work. Solid lines corresponds<br />

to the soft-SAFT model including the polar term <strong>and</strong> black dashed lines to the original soft-SAFT<br />

model at optimised size <strong>and</strong> the energy binary interaction parameters from Table III.8. The lighter<br />

solid lines are predictions given by the Peng Robinson EoS with kij also from Table III.8.<br />

Obviously that a more realistic molecular model as is the soft-SAFT EoS can<br />

predict the experimental data more accurately, capturing the different curvatures presented<br />

by the phase diagrams. However, globally the results obtained with the Peng-Robinson<br />

EoS are surprisingly good except in the case of the CO2/perfluorodecalin system, where the<br />

equation predicts a LLE region at 293.15 K that was not observed experimentally. These<br />

results confirm the idea that the empirical success of the Peng-Robinson equation of state<br />

is unique; there is no other simple equation of state of the van der Waals form that has<br />

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