Geometrical characteristics of the enlarged fused hard sphere models of simple molecules

The enlarged fused hard sphere model represents a compromise between fused hard sphere- and hard convex body models of repulsive interactions of nonspherical molecules. Geometric functionals of the enlarged fused hard sphere models, i.e., the hard body volume, surface area, and "mean radius" for 25 molecules of the linear and approximately planar shapes (cycloalkanes and aromatic compounds), neopentane and cyclohexane were determined from the bond lengths and bond angles and expressed in the dimensionless form. The hard sphere diameters, first approximated by the values found from the correlation of the second virial coefficients, were then adjusted to heats of vaporization of the studied compounds. Parameters of nonsphericity and molar volumes, evaluated from these characteristics, are compared with parameters of modern semiempirical equations of state (BACK, BACKONE, SAFT). The calculated geometric quantities for a series of compounds make it possible to improve methods of determining the characteristic parameters of the modern semiempirical equations of state, as well as those from the perturbation approaches.