The Viral (or Little) Equation of State (EOS)

The simplest form of the virial EOS is

z 1

BP P 1 B r RT Tr

(1)

where B is the reduced second virial coefficient given by BPc B RTc

The reduced coefficient is estimated as follows.
B B 0 B1

(2)

(3)

where is the accentric factor. Useful correlations for B0 and B1 are given by

B 0 0.083
and

0.422 Tr1.6

(4)

B1 0.139

0.172 Tr4.2

(5)

The properties Tc, Pc, and are given in Table A.1. This approach is valid, for a given Tr, where z is linear in Pr. Figure A.4 gives a visual picture of the linear-z regions.