The high-pressure phase behavior of coating -solvent-supercritical or sub-critical carbon dioxide system was investigated experimentally.The coating matrix used was 108-acrylic resin at concentration raging from 10% to 50%(by mass) in mixtures with n-butyl acetate ,The experiments were conducted in a high-pressure view cell for temperatures from 35℃to 65 ℃ and for pressures from 3.0 MPa to 8.0 MPa ,The effect of temperature,pressure and content of every component on the phase behavior of the systems was observed,Finally ,the ternary phase diagram for resin-solvent-CO2 was plotted.
The dependent relation between temperature and pressure of supercritical CO2 + etha-nol binary system under the pressure range from 5 to 10 MPa with the variety of densities and mole fractions of ethanol that range from 0 to 2% was investigated by the static visual method in a constant volume. The critical temperature and pressure were experimentally determined simulta-neously. The PTr figures at different ethanol contents were described based on the determined pressure and temperature data, from which pressure of supercritical CO2 + ethanol binary system was found to increase linearly with the increasing temperature. P-T lines show certain convergent feature in a specific concentration of ethanol and the convergent points shift to the region of higher temperature and pressure with the increasing ethanol compositions. Furthermore, the effect of density and ethanol concentration on the critical point of CO2 + ethanol binary system was dis-cussed in details. Critical points increase linearly with the increasing mole fraction of ethanol in specific density and critical points change at different densities. The critical compressibility factors Zc of supercritical CO2 + ethanol binary systems at different compositions of ethanol were calcu-lated and Zc-r figure was obtained accordingly. It was found from Zc-r figure that critical com-pressibility factors of supercritical CO2 unitary or binary systems decline linearly with the increasing density, by which the critical point can be predicted precisely.
