579This work is focused on the transition from super critical (SC) fluid equilibria, where the fluid solution (fl) remains homogeneous at any pressure, to hetero geneous SC equilibria l 1 /g/-l 2 an l 1 /g/-l 2 -s in response to changing mixture composition. The sub ject matter of the study at 380-400°С was the Li 2 SO 4 -K 2 SO 4 -H 2 O three component system, where both water-salt boundary subsystems (Li 2 SO 4 -Н 2 О and K 2 SO 4 -H 2 O) are type 2 (p-Q) systems, i.e., systems where heterogeneous gas-liquid equilibria at temper atures above the critical point of the volatile compo nent (water) are interrupted by a region of homoge neous SC fluids [1][2][3].Another specific feature of this ternary system is the existence of double salt KLiSO 4 , which is stable over a wide range of parameters of state, is congruently solu ble at elevated temperatures (>100°C), and forms a type 2 (p-Q) binary system with water [4][5][6]. For these reasons, the Li 2 SO 4 -K 2 SO 4 -H 2 O system may be represented as two similar (2-2-1 class in the sys tematic [2, 3]) ternary systems (Li 2 SO 4 -KLiSO 4 -H 2 O and K 2 SO 4 -KLiSO 4 -H 2 O), each to be studied individually. Some hydrothermal equilibria in the K 2 SO 4 -KLiSO 4 -H 2 O system have been studied ear lier [7,8].Li 2 SO 4 -H 2 O, K 2 SO 4 -H 2 O, and KLiSO 4 -H 2 O binary systems, as the vast majority of type 2 (p-Q) water-salt systems, are characterized by two critical end points (point p (g = l-s) and point Q (l 1 =l 2 -s) (from this, p-Q type systems), and by fluid regions at temperatures between T p and T Q where, whatever the pressure, the fluid does not separate into two phases (g-l or l 1 -l 2 ) and a crystalline salt can be in equilib rium only with the homogeneous fluid. Temperatures T p at which three phase equilibria g-l-s end and SC fluid equilibria appear, in all three of the binary sys tems are close to the critical point of water (374°С); the solubilities of salts under these conditions are very low (<2.5 wt %) [1-3]. Temperatures T Q and pressures р Q with which fluid equilibria (fl-s) are changed by equilibria l 1 -l 2 -s, are different in the aforementioned systems: 386°С and 59 MPa (KLiSO 4 -H 2 O), 395°С and 83 MPa (Li 2 SO 4 -H 2 O), and 430°С and 66 MPa (K 2 SO 4 -H 2 O). Salt concentrations in the critical solutions (l 1 = l 2 -s) of these systems are 30 ± 3 wt %, or 5 ± 0.5 mol % KLiSO 4 , 6.6 ± 0.6 mol % Li 2 SO 4 , 4.2 ± 0.4 mol % K 2 SO 4 [1-3, 6, 9, 10].At temperatures above T Q , the solubility iso therms/polybars of type 2 salts in water reveal a jump in the concentration of saturated liquid solutions in crossing the stable immiscibility region l 1 -l 2 -s. This can be seen in Fig. 1, which shows the compositions of coexisting saturated and unsaturated solutions in the Li 2 SO 4 -Н 2 О and KLiSO 4 -H 2 O systems at 400°С. The salt content of a dilute solution (l 1 ) is not high; under isothermal pressure reduction, this phase is continuously converting into a vapor solution (g) in equilibrium with a type 2 salt. The second liquid phase (l 2 ...