As
the need for dew point specifications remains very urgent in
the natural gas industry, the development of accurate thermodynamic
models, which will match experimental data and will allow reliable
extrapolations, is needed. Accurate predictions of the gas phase water
content in equilibrium with a heavy phase were previously obtained
using cubic plus association (CPA) coupled with a solid phase model
in the case of hydrates, for the binary systems of water–methane
and water–nitrogen and a few natural gas mixtures. In this
work, CPA is being validated against new experimental data, both water
content and phase equilibrium data, and solid model parameters are
being estimated for four natural gas main components (methane, ethane,
propane, and carbon dioxide). Different tests for the solid model
parameters are reported, including vapor-hydrate-equilibria (VHE)
and liquid-hydrate-equilibria (LHE) calculations, structural transitions,
and predictions at low temperatures. Furthermore, model predictions
for representative multicomponent mixtures are presented and compared
against the ISO-standard GERG-water model and other selected models.
In most cases, very good agreement with experimental data is obtained.