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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Thermodynamics Volume 2011, Article ID 696548, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/696548 Research Article A New Method to Calculate the Pure Component Parameters of Any Two-Parameter Equation of State Isam H. Aljundi1, 2 1 Chemical Engineering Department, University of Nizwa, Nizwa 616, Oman 2 Chemical Engineering Department, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan Correspondence should be addressed to Isam H. Aljundi, aljundi@.om Received 14 June 2011; Accepted 8 August 2011 Academic Editor: Mohammad Al-Nimr Copyright © 2011 Isam H. Aljundi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Reliable equations of state are very important in the design of refrigeration cycles, since thermodynamic properties can be calculated by simple differentiation. In this paper, a new method to calculate the parameters of any two-parameter equation of state is presented. The method is based on the use of Clapeyron equation and the experimental PVT data. This method was tested on a newly developed cubic equation of state and proved to be simple and fast. Results showed orders of magnitude enhancement in prediction of the saturated vapor pressure even near the critical region. The Percent Absolute Average Deviation (%AAD) was always less than 0.1 in the studied cases. It also showed that the parameters calculated using the original equation deviate strongly from the “experimental” values as the temperature decreases below the critical point. This method can be used to redefine the temperature dependences of these parameters and develop new mixing rules for the mixtures. 1. Int