The analysis and design of binary vapour‐liquid equilibrium experiments. Part I: Parameter estimation and consistency tests

Abstract When estimating the unknown parameters in semi‐empirical relationships from vapour‐liquid equilibrium experiments, it has been common practice to minimize the sum of squares of some arbitrary function of one or more of the measured variables (x, y, P, T) without regard to the statistical consequences of such a procedure. It is shown that because these arbitrary procedures do not fully account for the errors in all the variables in the …