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The main objectives of the planned research work are:

1. extensive examination of the current group interaction parameters using the Dortmund Data Bank (DDB) in connection with graphical representations

2. revision of the existing group interaction parameters using new experimental results from systematic measurements and the currently available data banks

3. filling gaps in the existing parameter tables (UNIFAC, Modified UNIFAC (Dortmund) and PSRK) 

4. introduction of new groups (cyclic thioethers, imidazole, morpholine, pyrrole, ...)

5. introduction of more flexible groups (e.g. cyclic sulfides, aromatic ethers, nitriles, sulfides,...)

6. consideration of proximity and isomeric effects

For this research work besides a large data base a large number of systematic experimental investigations are necessary to fill gaps in the matrices and to revise group interaction parameters. The systematic measurements should increase the data base with supporting experimental data for fitting reliable temperature dependent group interaction parameters. Besides data for vapor-liquid equilibria in particular  activity coefficients at infinite dilution, azeotropic data, solid-liquid equilibria of eutectic systems and heats of mixing data at high temperatures (90 and 140 ^oC) are measured. 

DDBST GmbH, responsible for the update of the Dortmund Data Bank (DDB), kindly agreed to support the planned research work by supplying the current version of the Dortmund Data Bank, this means all the phase equilibrium information published in literature. At the first sponsor meeting the representatives also agreed to provide internal company data exclusively for the planned model development work.

At the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Oldenburg very reliable experimental facilities (in many cases computer driven) have been built up, which are used for the various experimental investigations (VLE, hE, SLE, azeotropic data). Furthermore a sophisticated software package was developed within the last 25 years, which simplifies the fitting of the group interaction parameters. This means that a great part of the required preliminary work for a successful completion of the comprehensive research project has already been performed.

The following table shows the available group interaction parameters for the model Modified UNIFAC (Dortmund) 2011

* in the meantime 258 of the already published group interaction parameters have been revised within the consortium.