(576e) Towards Meeting Industry Needs: A Review of SAFT Applications

Since the inception of SAFT more than two decades ago, SAFT has been theoretically improved and applied to wider practical applications. Although SAFT, as expected, will continue to face new challenges in the future, it has become one of the most important thermodynamic models available to chemical industries.

Various systems, including small, branched, polar, and associating molecules, polymers, electrolyte solutions, and ionic liquids have been modeled using SAFT. In addition to the well-known SAFT capability of describing common thermodynamic properties, such as density, vapor pressure, and phase equilibria, recent applications demonstrate that SAFT is also able to describe and predict thermal properties, critical micelle concentrations, and even the properties of biomaterials and solid phases. Coupled with other theories, such as the friction or free volume theory, the density functional theory, or the van der Waals and Platteeuw theory, SAFT becomes even more powerful in solving practical problems. These various applications will be sampled and presented.