Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam. 1985, 24, 301-310 301 debted to the Donegani Research Institute of the Montedison Co., Novara (Italy), for his yearlong visit at MIT. Appendix lations of the system parameters, eq 1-4The following equations have been used for the calcua / a d = 1.05Re0.047 We0.135 -4-4) In kAm (L/(g-mol 9)) = --13600*5 + 53.69 (A-5)log K , (g-mol/L) = --3404*7 + 14.843 -0.03279T T ( A 4 log K2 (g-mol/L) = --2902'4 + 6.498 -0.0238T (A-9) [K+] = 3.62 g-mol/L, [DEA] = 0.25[Am], [Am] = 0.238 g-mol/L, v1 = 1 cP, cr = 61 dyn/cm, p1 = 1240 kg/m3, D1 = 1.65 X cmz/s T absorber stripper units f an 0.38 0.80 2.02 x lO-'/P[atm] 2.77 Xm2/s 1.93 x 10-5 1.31 x lo-' k g i y -7 1 2 377 m -1 0.685 1.68 m C, 3.6 9.525 2 x lo-' m D , 6.35 x 10-3 Registry No. DEA, 111-42-2; COz, 124-38-9. Literature Cited Suenson, M. M.; Georgakis, C.; Evans, L. G. Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam.,An experimental procedure is described for characterizing high-boiling, distillable fossil-fuel mixtures to facilitate estimation of thermodynamic properties for processdesign calculations. A mixture is first separated into narrow-boiling fractions by usirlg a spinning-band band column operating at low pressure and high reflux. Each fraction is considered to be a pseudocomponent of the mixture. Each pseudocomponent is characterized by structural properties per average molecule: carbon, a-hydrogen, @-hydrogen, y-hydrogen, hydroxyl, ether oxygen, primary amine, secondary amine, pyridinlc nitrogen, and thiophenic sulfur. These structural properties are obtained from elemental analysis, proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, infrared spectra, and cryoscopic measurements. The proposed characterization procedure is illustrated with an Exxon donor solvent product, a Lurgi creosote, five crude4 fractions from Belridge, CA, and five crude-oil fractions from Hendrick Station, TX. The molecular-structure properties obtained from characterization data are used to calculate equation-of-state constants as discussed in the following article.To design processes for high-boiling fossil-fuel feedstocks, it is necessary to estimate thermodynamic properties of such feeds. Particularly important are the equilibrium ratios (K factors) as obtained from an equation of state. Typically, three or more equation-of-state constants are required for each component, as well as binary interaction constants for each pair of components. As the number of components in a high-boiling feed is prohibitively large, it is efficient to consider the feed to be a mixture of a relatively small number of pseudocomponents. By correlating equation-of-state constants with physically significant characterization data for model compounds, it 0196-43 13/85/ 1024-0301$01.50/0 is then possible to use characterization data for pseudocomponents to obtain their equation-of-state constants. This work presents a method for obtaining such characterization data for distillable (Tb,h < 450 "C), high-boiling fossil-fuel liquids.Traditional methods of characterization are now about 50 years old. These methods...