New Strategy for Predicting Liquid-liquid Equilibrium Near Critical
Point Using Global Renormalization Group Theory
Abstract
Classical liquid activity coefficient models (LM), such as the NRTL
model, fail near the critical point of the liquid-liquid equilibrium
(LLE), unless a highly nonlinear temperature dependency is introduced
for the molecular interaction parameters. In this work, we propose an
approach to predict the LLE data near the critical point using data away
from the critical region based on the global renormalization group
theory (GRGT). In particular, we propose a non-empirical approach to
determine the GRGT parameters, thus does not rely on experimental data.
The performance of our method is examined with the NRTL model using 21
binary mixtures. Our results show that the predictive approach proposed
in this work reduces the error in the critical solution temperatures by
about 50% when compared to the classical NRTL model using linear
temperature dependent interaction parameters.