Experimental study and phase equilibrium modeling of systems containing acid gas and glycol

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 318, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-50

  Afzal, Waheed ^a,d   Breil, Martin P ^b,e   Tsivintzelis, Ioannis ^b   Mohammadi, Amir H ^a,c   Kontogeorgis, Georgios M ^b   Richon, Dominique ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^e NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Carbonyl sulfide; CPA EoS; Experimental solubility data; Gas dehydration; Glycol; Homomorph approach; Hydrogen sulfide

Indexed keywords

ACID GAS; BINARY INTERACTION PARAMETER; BINARY SYSTEMS; CARBONYL SULFIDE; CPA EOS; CUBIC PLUS ASSOCIATIONS; DIETHYLENE GLYCOL; ELEVATED PRESSURE; EQUATION OF STATE; EQUILIBRIUM MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL SOLUBILITY DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HOMOMORPH APPROACH; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; LIMITED DATA; LITERATURE SURVEY; MODELING STRATEGY; MONOETHYLENE GLYCOL; PURE COMPONENTS; SOLUBILITY DATA; TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL;

BINARY MIXTURES; CARBON DIOXIDE; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GASES; GLYCOLS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR DETERMINATION;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 84856799219     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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