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Two new hard-sphere EOS are proposed and tested using the same attractive potential terms used by the SAFT EOS. Generalized expressions for the pair RDF at contact value, the compressibility factor, and the excess chemical potentials have been derived. Extension to mixtures is tested using three mixing rules for multicomponent hard-sphere fluids. The proposed EOS combined with the Santos et al. and the Barrio-Solana mixing rules reproduced the compressibility factors and the excess chemical potentials more accurately than the Boublik-Mansoori-Carnahan-Starling-Leland (BMCSL) EOS. However the pair RDF at contact value had larger deviations than those obtained with the BMCSL EOS. The... 

A new hard-core potential model was recently used to calculate thermodynamic properties of some model fluids, including equilibrium properties, such as compressibility factor and internal energy. A Lennard-Jones (LJ) like potential has been used to modify the repulsive part of the potential. The modified potential contains five parameters, namely, R, and HS. The parameter is the tail of the attractive branch whose value changes from zero to one. In this work, we have chosen = 1 to make the potential continuous at separation r = R, where the parameter R is the well width. R lies in the range 1.2 to 2.5, and R = 1.3 was found to be the best value for all real gases studied. The parameter is... 

A simple equation of state (EoS) has recently been introduced (J. Phys. Chem. B2009, 113, 11977-11987) as (Z - 1)v2 = e + f/ρ + gρ2, where Z ≡ pv/RT is the compressibility factor, v = 1/ρ is molar volume, and e, f, and g are temperature dependent parameters. This EoS has been found to be accurate for all types of nano and bulk solids and bulk fluids, in the entire temperature and pressure ranges for which experimental data are reported, except for the isotherms within 1 ≤ T r = T/Tc ≤ 1.1 for the spherical and near spherical species and for a wider temperature range for the cylindrical molecules. The aim of this work is to investigate the validity of a three-term expression similar to the... 

In this paper, the Heidaryan and Jarrahian equation of state (Heidaryan and Jarrahian, 2013) has been adapted as a first worldwide cubic EOS to calculate the density of dry natural gases, wet natural gases, and single-phase gas condensates "sweet and sour mixtures" (up to 73.85, 97.63 and 38.37 mol percent of H2S, CO2, and N2 respectively) even when the gas composition is unknown, through new gas specific gravity correlation equations. Correction terms of water content as high as 10 mol percent of H2O and hythane (natural gas + hydrogen) as high as 74.9 mol percent of H2 were obtained. The equation of state was validated with 8985 experimental compressibility factor data points from 308... 

In this work, a new automatic workflow for accurate optimal pseudo-component generation from gas condensate mixtures with a large number of components is presented. This workflow has a good insight into thermo-physical and critical properties and introduces only a small amount of loss of information and EOS flexibility. In this regard, the fuzzy clustering is used to classify the components in the mixture based on the similarities in the critical properties. The mixing rules are then applied to find group properties. Two different approaches for components association in clustering process are investigated with several numbers of groups. The mathematical validity of the groups is controlled... 

The measurement of PVT properties of natural gas in gas pipelines, gas storage systems, and gas reservoirs require accurate values of compressibility factor. Although equation of state and empirical correlations were utilized to estimate compressibility factor, but the demands for novel, more reliable, and easy-to-use models encouraged the researchers to introduce modern tools such as artificial intelligent systems.This paper introduces Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and Genetic algorithm (GA) as population-based stochastic search algorithms to optimize the weights and biases of networks, and to prevent trapping in local minima. Hence, in this paper, GA and PSO were used to minimize the... 

Compressibility factor (z-factor) values of natural gasses are essential in most petroleum and chemical engineering calculations. The most common sources of z-factor values are laboratory experiments, empirical correlations and equations of state methods. Necessity arises when there is no available experimental data for the required composition, pressure and temperature conditions. Introduced here is a technique to predict z-factor values of natural gasses, sour reservoir gasses and pure substances. In this communication, a novel mathematical-based approach was proposed to develop reliable model for prediction of compressibility factor of sour and natural gas. A robust soft computing... 

The clarification of rough non-alcoholic beer (RNAB) and diluted malt extract (DME) was investigated in a pilot plant consisting of a tubular ceramic membrane with nominal pore diameter of 0.45μm. The results of the primary experiments show that the concentration of suspended particles in the RNAB (∼0.05kg/m3) and DME (∼0.2kg/m3) correlates proportionally to turbidity (in NTU) with the factor of 4.45×10-4 (kgm-3NTU-1). During cross-flow microfiltration (CFMF), flux declined drastically with time due to fouling mechanisms and propensity. According to the characterizing curve of log(d2t/dV2) versus log(dt/dV), fouling is initiated by penetration of aggregates through the membrane surface,...