Predictions of the vapor-liquid equilibrium data for low-GWP Hydrofluorocarbons + polyethylene-glycol dimethylether solvents by modified UNIFAC model

Abstract

The working fluids are crucial for developing the absorption refrigeration system. Our previous work has proposed three novel working pairs, which uses the low-GWP HFCs (R32, R152a and R161) as the refrigerants and the polyethylene-glycol dimethylether solvent DMETEG as the absorbent. To explore the VLE behaviors of HFCs in other longer chain structures of polyethylene-glycol dimethylether solvents, the modified UNIFAC (Dortmund) model was applied for prediction. The previous binary parameters showed large deviations from the experimental data. Then the new binary parameters were obtained by regression. For R32+DMEDEG and R152a/R161+DMETrEG, the prediction ARAD results were reduced from 17.13%, 24.06% and 12.48% to 3.71%, 2.61% and 6.86%, respectively. Finally, the VLE data of R161 + PGDE at the temperatures of 293.15-343.15K were predicted.