Representation for binary mixtures of n-alcohols + sub and supercritical CO2 by a group-contribution method

In order to represent vapour–liquid equilibria of binary n-alcohol–carbon dioxide mixtures the excess function-equation of state method is used in which carbon dioxide is described by the IUPAC equation of state and alcohols by a Peng–Robinson type equation where the attractive parameter is estimated by a group-contribution method. The excess function is of the Van Laar type in which the interaction parameters are calculated by a group-contribution method. This approach allows to correlate and predict with quite good accuracy VLE of binary systems of alcohols and CO2, even for heavier alcohols.