Evaluating Seven Cubic Equations of State in Predicting Gas and Liquid Phase Thermodynamic Properties of Refrigerant Mixtures

Omid Mobinipouya
2011 ASME 2011 9th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Volume 1   unpublished
The present work is devoted to evaluating seven cubic equations of state (EOS) in predicting gas and liquid phase volumetric properties of nine ozone-safe refrigerants both in super and sub-critical regions. The evaluations, in sub-critical region, show that TWU and PR EOS are capable of predicting PVT properties of refrigerants R32 within 2%, R22, R134a, R152a and R143a within 1% and R123, R124, R125, and y TWU and PR EOS's, from literature data are 0.5% for R22, R32, R152a, R143a, and R125,
more » ... for R123, R134a, and R141b, and 2% for R124. Moreover, SRK EOS predicts PVT properties of R22, R125, and R123 to within aforementioned errors. The remaining EOS's predicts volumetric properties of this class of fluids with higher errors than those above mentioned which are at most 8%.In general, the results are in favor of the preference of TWU and PR EOS over other remaining EOS's in predicting densities of all mentioned refrigerants in both super and sub critical regions. Typically, this refrigerant is known to offer advantages such as ozone depleting potential equal to zero, Global warming potential equal to 140, and no toxic.
doi:10.1115/icnmm2011-58133 fatcat:h2tw236kcfh2lfvsxkqgatiro4