Ali Haghtalab - Department of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abolfazl Shojaeian - Department of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Elham Ebrahimiaqda - Department of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

The new local composition model, Segmental-Wilson-NRF, based on the volume fraction is developed and a new excess Gibbs energy function for description of the binary polymer-solventsystems is obtained. This model for non-polymeric systems reduces to N-Wilson-NRF model. Theactivity coefficient of the new model consists of two parts, combinatorial and residual terms. In this work the S-Wilson-NRF are used for residual term and Flory-Huggins equations are appliedfor combinatorial term. The models with one temperature depended adjustable energy parametersare applied to correlate and predict the activity of solvent for 50 binary polymer solutions at various number-average molar mass of polymer and temperatures. In this work, the two differentapproaches are used for optimization of the solvent and segmental parameters. In the first approach, the two parameters are correlated for each binary polymer systems at the different conditions, however in the other approach we assume that the solvent and segmental interactionparameters are the same for the same binary polymer systems but they have the different numberaverage molar mass. Thus, using a temperature dependent relation for each parameter, only the two adjustable parameters for this group of systems are correlated. Using the first and secondapproaches, the overall root of mean square deviation (RMSD) are 0.018 and 0.037, respectively. The results show that the new model with the two different approaches is in good agreement with experimental data

Polymer solution, Segmental-Wilson-NRF, Flory-Huggins, local composition model,Vapor-liquid equilibrium