The article deals with the investigation of the ethylene-butane natural gases mixture that is promising for practical application. A unit with a small volume cell created to obtain data on phase equilibria and thermal properties of binary mixtures of little investigated and rare substances using several experimental methods was presented. It is shown that it was possible to use non-standard measuring equipment to obtain sufficiently reliable results in a wide range of temperatures, pressures and compositions. Application of a new method to determine two-component gas mixtures concentration was demonstrated. The method of experimentation was described as well. The experimental results of ethylene–butane mixture thermal properties and vapor-liquid equilibrium that have expanded our knowledge in relation to this two-component natural refrigerant behavior in the low-temperature region and at high dilutions were tabulated. The comparison of the experimental and calculated data showed the possibility of applying the three-parameter cubic equation of state to simulate the thermodynamic properties of the ethylene–butane mixture without using test data of the mixture.
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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftegazovoe Mashinostroenie, No. 12, pp. 15–21, December, 2017.
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Bondarenko, V.L., Valyakina, A.V., Borisenko, A.V. et al. Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of the Ethylene–Butane Mixture. Chem Petrol Eng 53, 778–787 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10556-018-0421-3
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