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UNIFAC Consortium

释义

History
Objectives
Supported models
External links
References

The UNIFAC Consortium has been founded at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg at the chair of industrial chemistry of Prof. Gmehling to invite private companies to support the further development of the group contribution methods UNIFAC and its successor modified UNIFAC (Dortmund). Both models are used for the prediction of thermodynamic properties, especially the estimation of phase equilibria.

The UNIFAC consortium is a successful example of private sponsorship of a public university in Germany.

History

The consortium was founded in 1997 when the public financing of the further development of the models became unlikely. The models UNIFAC and mod. UNIFAC (Dortmund) have already been used widely in software for the simulation and synthesis of chemical processes. Many companies doing process development in the field of chemical engineering had announced their support for a new way to subsidize the further development. This is facilitated through the support of over 40 companies, and is particularly aided by the DDBST GmbH, which supplies the complete Dortmund Data Bank (DDB) and several software tools for free. The DDB, a factual data bank for thermodynamic data, especially phase equilibrium data, is the main source for the work of the consortium.

Objectives

The normal work of the consortium includes

the creation of new and the improvement of older model parameters
the measurement of experimental data (partly own work, partly given to contractors)
holding annual member meetings

The consortium has e. g. added or modified 404 interaction parameters in the original UNIFAC matrix compared to the 635 parameters from the latest publication.^[1]

The major goals are to

improve the quality of the predictions
extend the range of applicability of the models. This include the support for further component types with new functional groups.
supply the parameters to process simulation and DDB software (for consortium members only)

The model parameters are confidential and only accessible to consortium members for at least two and a half year after the first delivery. After this time the university can publish the model parameters.

Supported models

The UNIFAC consortium supports the development of three different models,

original UNIFAC,^[2]^[3]
mod. UNIFAC (Dortmund),^[4] and,
PSRK^[5] (since 2005).

Both UNIFAC models are estimating activity coefficients, PSRK (short for Predictive Soave-Redlich-Kwong) however is a combination of the original UNIFAC model with an equation of state.

External links

Official web site

References

1. ^Wittig R., Lohmann J., Gmehling J., „Vapor-Liquid Equilibria by UNIFAC Group Contribution. 6. Revision and Extension“, Ind.Eng.Chem.Res., 42(1), 183-188, 2003
2. ^Fredenslund A., Jones R.L., Prausnitz J.M., „Group-Contribution Estimation of Activity Coefficients in Nonideal Liquid Mixtures“, AIChE J., 21(6), 1086-1099, 1975
3. ^Å. Fredenslund, J. Gmehling, P. Rasmussen; „Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Using UNIFAC - A Group Contribution Method;“ Elsevier, Amsterdam (1977)
4. ^Weidlich U., Gmehling J., "A Modified UNIFAC Model. 1. Prediction of VLE, hE, and gamma Infinite", Ind.Eng.Chem.Res., 26(7), 1372-1381, 1987
5. ^Holderbaum T., Gmehling J., "PSRK: A Group-Contribution Equation of State based on UNIFAC", Fluid Phase Equilib., 70, 251-265, 1991

1 : Thermodynamic models

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