Modeling Phase Equilibrium of H2 + n-Alkane and CO2 + n-Alkane Binary Mixtures Using a Group Contribution Statistical Association Fluid Theory Equation of State (GC-SAFT-EOS) with a kij Group Contribution Method

A group contribution (GC) method combined with a SAFT equation of state (EOS) [Tamouza et al., Fluid Phase Equilib. 2004, 222-223, 67 and 2005, 228-229, 409] is extended here to model vapor-liquid phase equilibria of binary mixtures of H2 + n-alkanes and CO2 + nalkanes. Modeling these systems requires binary interaction parameters kij that are estimated here in the same spirit as pure compound GC-SAFT parameters, i.e., through a specific group contribution method. Molecule-group interaction parameters (kH2,CH2, kH2,CH3, kCO2,CH2, and kCO2,CH3) are used rather than molecule-molecule interaction parameters. Two versions of SAFT are tested here: the Perturbed-Chain SAFT (PC-SAFT) [Gross and Sadowski, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2000, 40, 1244] and Variable-Range SAFT (VR-SAFT) [Gil-Villegas et al., J. Chem. Phys. 1997, 106, 4168]. The results are very encouraging, particularly for predicting binary mixtures of CO2 and heavy n-alkanes. Mixtures that contain H2 are modeled here with deviations that compare well with those of the classically used Grayson-Streed model.