I am an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering and seeking for suggestionson topics on thermodynamic property estimation that I may take up as my UG Thesis.
Dear Eisha, the topic to use is in function of what you investigate. I agree with Dr. Farid's opinion. it is very important to compare the different methods. I send you differents articles and I hope it will be useful
Yes. You have a great opportunity to learn.
I am sure that Dr. Farid did not mean to imply that the SRK, PRSV etc are for vapor phase only, so one thing you can do is to generate liquid and vapor densities using various equations of state and compare them to experimental data and see if one is generally better than that other. It has always been said that the LKP does better on liquid AND vapor density. Perhaps you can verify that or, show that it is not true. or give a general statement on how much better. You can do this for pure component and mixtures as well.
To find experimental data, I recommend the NIST literature database. http://www.trc.nist.gov/thermolit/main/home.html#home unless you already have access to a good database.
Wanna take it one step further? What is the effect of density on enthalpy?
At the UG level, I suggest you consider trying to explain the trends in any property within chemical families. For example, the trends in alcohol melting points as the alcohol molecular weight increases. Many of these trends are more complex than you might imagine and require some significant thought to explain.
A more ambitious and potentially more useful topic is properties at extreme conditions, such as at cryogenic temperatures.
Finally, there are many much more applied topics of interest, such as the retrograde regions in natural gas properties (look up retrograde, cricondentherm, etc.) and how to correlate their behavior with composition (weak correlation) and size of molecules in the mixture (stronger correlation).
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