Models and software:

• Aspen Plus^®; VTPLAN (in-house simulator) and all relevant thermodynamic models;
• predictive methods, e.g. UNIFAC, COSMO-RS, turbomole;
• entrainer selection, in-house developments.

Experimental methods:

• vapor pressure, T < 350 °C, 10-5 hPa < P < 70 MPa (dynamic; static; gas saturation; balance);
• density, -20 °C < T < 500 °C, P < 35 MPa (vibrating tube, pycnometer, buoyancy balance);
• viscosity, -20 °C < T < 500 °C, P < 10 MPa (rotational rheometer, Ubbelohde, Höppler);
• heat capacity, melting enthalpy, transition enthalpy, crystallinity, glass transition temperature, 30 °C < T < 300 °C (calorimeter);
• thermal conductivity (liquid and gas) -30 °C < T < 200 °C, 0.1 MPa < P < 1.5 MPa (hot wire);
• vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE), T < 400 °C, P < 6,000 hPa (static, dynamic, headspace GC);
• solubility of gases in liquids (GLE), T < 230 °C, 1 hPa < P < 30 MPa (static);
• activity coefficients at infinite dilution, 30 °C < T < 350 °C (differential ebulliometer, inverse GC);
• solubility and diffusion coefficients in polymers, T < 350 °C, 5 hPa < P < 30 MPa (pressure decay method, inverse GC);
• liquid-liquid equilibria (LLE) and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibria (VLLE), T < 230 °C, 1 hPa < P < 30 MPa (static);
• phase equilibria in chemically reacting systems (VLE) 10 °C < T < 230 °C, 30 hPa < P < 1 MPa (stationary reactor with on-line IR);
• high-pressure phase equilibria (VLE, VLLE, SLE, phase behavior) -30°C < T < 200 °C, P < 30 MPa (view cell, variable volume, sampling);
• solid-liquid equilibria (SLE), -30 °C < T < 230 °C (static);
• analysis: GC, GC-MS, GC-MS/MS, SPME-GC-MS, headspace GC, inverse GC, HPLC, FTIR, potentiometry, volumetry, ion chromatography;
• boiling point, melting point, refractive index.