“…However, it should be mentioned that the temperature maximum on the critical curve in the case of gas = gas equilibrium, as it was predicted by van der Waals (1894), has not been found experimentally up to now, only the rise of critical temperature with pressure (up to 100 kbar (Van den Bergh et al, 1987;Van den Bergh and Shouten, 1988)) was observed in number of binary mixtures. Aqueous systems with non-polar volatile components, such as Ar (Tsiklis and Prokhorov, 1966;Tsiklis, 1969;Wu et al, 1990), methane (CH 4 ) (Brunner, 1990;Shmonov et al, 1993), ethane (C 2 H 6 ) (Danneil et al, 1967;Brunner, 1990), CO 2 (Todheide and Franck, 1963;Takenouchi, S. and Kennedy, G.C., 1964); Kr (Mather et al, 1993); H 2 (Seward and Franck, 1981); N 2 (Japas and Franck, 1985a); O 2 (Japas and Franck, 1985b); Xe (Franck et al, 1974), where water is less volatile component, are characterized by the high-temperature critical curves (starting in the critical point of water) with temperature minimum (type 2 of gas = gas equilibrium). Same type of phase behavior was observed in hydrocarbon -water systems (Figure 1.21 (Schneider, 1970(Schneider, , 1978Brunner, 1990;Smits et al, 1998).…”