A new equation for correlation of vapour-liquid equilibrium data of strongly non-ideal mixtures

A new equation for correlation of the thermodynamic excess functions of mixing, based on considerations of geometrical shape is proposed. Use of this equation for the correlation of heat of mixing data and vapour-liquid equilibrium data is proposed. The possibility of predicting multicomponent vapour-liquid equilibrium from binary data by using the proposed equation is shown. The equation is especially useful for correlating the excess functions of strongly non-ideal systems and for checking thermodynamic consistency of vapour-liquid equilibrium data.