Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.87, No.4, 568-571, 2009
A GENERAL RELATION FOR IDENTIFYING THE LIQUID LIKE AND VAPOUR LIKE REGIONS OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
Supercritical fluids exhibit liquid like behaviour close to a reduced pressure and reduced temperature of 1.0. The density of a supercritical fluid in this region is similar to that of liquids. Many practical applications use the sharp change from liquid like properties to vapour like properties for a variety of uses. There is no correlation in the literature that gives the general locus of the region that separates vapour like and liquid like regions of super critical fluids. In this article, we present a generalized correlation based on the acentric factor, and calculations obtained using NIST REFPROP.