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242 Damelys Zabala and Aurélie Wen<strong>de</strong>r / Revista Ingeniería UC , Vol. 23, No. 3, Diciembre 2016, 237-246<br />

Table 3: Parameters of saturation liquid <strong>de</strong>nsity of pure<br />

components<br />

Saturation<br />

<strong>de</strong>nsity<br />

CO 2 nC 4 nC 10<br />

(kmol/m³)<br />

A 2.768 1.0677 0.41084<br />

B 0.26212 0.27188 0.25175<br />

C 304.21 425.12 617.7<br />

D 0.2908 0.28688 0.28571<br />

E 0 0 0<br />

Values from Dia<strong>de</strong>m Pro Gold R<br />

Table 4: Calculated influence parameter c i of pure components<br />

(PR).<br />

Figura 1: Interfacial tension vs pressure at 344.3K,<br />

(CO 2<br />

/nC 10 mixture, PR). Experimental data [16].<br />

Component Tref [K]<br />

σ pure<br />

[mN/m] (*)<br />

c i<br />

[Jm 5 /kmol 2 ]<br />

CO 2 216.58 (**) 16.6924 2.6147E-14<br />

nC 4 272.65 14.90103 1.75337E-13<br />

nC 10 447.305 10.26487 1.2415E-12<br />

(*): Experimental value from Dia<strong>de</strong>m Pro Gold R<br />

(**): TPT is used for CO 2 instead NBP<br />

of this cubic equation for the estimation of the<br />

liquid equilibrium values at high pressure.<br />

The monotonic trend of the <strong>de</strong>nsity profile<br />

insi<strong>de</strong> the interface, for the n-<strong>de</strong>cane is observed in<br />

Figure 2. This behavior confirms the correct choice<br />

of the nC 10 as the reference component.<br />

Mixture CO 2 /nC 10 at T = 344.3K. For this<br />

mixture, the PR binary interaction parameter<br />

ki j=0.12 was used. The IFT was calculated at<br />

four different pressures. The results are shown in<br />

Table 5 and in Figures 1, 2 and 3.<br />

Table 5: Interfacial tension vs pressure at 344.3K for<br />

CO 2<br />

/nC 10 mixture (PR).<br />

P(bar) IFT [mN/m]<br />

69.4 7.24<br />

103.4 2.77<br />

117.3 1.37<br />

125.5 0.75<br />

Figure 1 shows that the IFT values obtained<br />

by the <strong>de</strong>nsity gradient theory for the CO 2 /nC 10<br />

mixture are very close to the experimental data<br />

with an absolute average <strong>de</strong>viation (AAD) below<br />

10 %, when the experimental values are above 1<br />

mN/m. For low experimental IFT values, the AAD<br />

increases abruptly over 60 %. This behavior was<br />

obtained also by other author [11] working DGT<br />

with RKS equation of state with a binary mixture<br />

methane + butane and it was stated the limitation<br />

Figura 2: Density profiles at 344.3K and different pressures,<br />

for reference component, nC 10 , (CO 2<br />

/nC 10 mixture, PR).<br />

Mixture CO 2 /nC 4 at T = 344.3K. For this<br />

mixture, the PR binary interaction parameter<br />

kij=0.15 was used. The IFT was calculated at<br />

three different pressures. The results are shown in<br />

Table 6 and in Figures 4, 5 and 6.<br />

In Figure 4, the IFT values obtained by DGT for<br />

the CO 2 /nC 4 mixture are close to the experimental<br />

data (15 %), but there is a bigger <strong>de</strong>viation (24 %)<br />

in the interfacial tension value below 1mN/m, like<br />

in the previous case. The monotonic trend of the<br />

<strong>de</strong>nsity profile for the n-butane insi<strong>de</strong> the interface<br />

Revista Ingeniería UC, ISSN: 1316–6832, Facultad <strong>de</strong> Ingeniería, <strong>Universidad</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Carabobo</strong>.

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