Vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) properties versus critical exponent theory - on new approximate mathematical approach to determine the critical exponent value of the vapor-liquid coexistence curve

Abstract

A novel mathematical rigorous method to obtain the vapor-liquid equilibrium curves near the critical point has been proposed covering the cases of well-known and commonly used equations of state for real gases - Van der Waals and Dieterici, which are prototypes to determine the critical exponent value of the coexistence curves system. We explain that the critical exponent value of the vapor-liquid equilibrium curves can be regarded as the analogy to the results based on classical assumptions - mean field theory. The novelty of our method has been exposed in comparison to the standard thermodynamic limit discussed thoroughly and extensively in the literature.