Modification of the Redlich-Kwong-Aungier Equation of State to Determine the Degree of Dryness in the CO2 Two-phase Region
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The degree of dryness is the most important parameter that determines the state of a real gas and the thermodynamic properties of the working fluid in a two-phase region. This article presents a modified Redlich-Kwong-Aungier equation of state to determine the degree of dryness in the two-phase region of a real gas. Selected as the working fluid under study was CO2. The results were validated using the Span-Wanger equation presented in the mini-REFPROP program, the equation being closest to the experimental data in the CO2 two-phase region. For the proposed method, the initial data are temperature and density, critical properties of the working fluid, its eccentricity coefficient, and molar mass. In the process of its solution, determined are the pressure, which for a two-phase region becomes the pressure of saturated vapor, the volumes of the gas and liquid phases of a two-phase region, the densities of the gas and liquid phases, and the degree of dryness. The saturated vapor pressure was found using the Lee-Kesler and Pitzer method, the results being in good agreement with the experimental data. The volume of the gas phase of a two-phase region is determined by the modified Redlich-Kwong-Aungier equation of state. The paper proposes a correlation equation for the scale correction used in the Redlich-Kwongda-Aungier equation of state for the gas phase of a two-phase region. The volume of the liquid phase was found by the Yamada-Gann method. The volumes of both phases were validated against the basic data, and are in good agreement. The results obtained for the degree of dryness also showed good agreement with the basic values, which ensures the applicability of the proposed method in the entire two-phase region, limited by the temperature range from 220 to 300 K. The results also open up the possibility to develop the method in the triple point region (216.59K-220 K) and in the near-critical region (300 K-304.13 K), as well as to determine, with greater accuracy, the basic CO2 thermodynamic parameters in the two-phase region, such as enthalpy, entropy, viscosity, compressibility coefficient, specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity coefficient for the gas and liquid phases. Due to the simplicity of the form of the equation of state and a small number of empirical coefficients, the obtained technique can be used for practical problems of computational fluid dynamics without spending a lot of computation time.
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