Currently, activities carried out at the Laboratory for Thermodynamics and Physical Chemistry of Fluids, are directed primarily to research. There are two major directions in the work being done.

A) For pure substances and mixes, using such compounds as saturated and insaturated hydrocarbons, alcohols, esters, ethers, halogenated compondous, alternative refrigerants, ionic liquids, etc

-Experimental determination of:
	Densities, indirectly excess and mixing quantities.
	Refraction index, indirectly excess and mixing quantities.
	Viscosities, excess and mixing quantities.
	Thermal Capacities, excess and mixing quantities.
	Interaction energies between substances.
	Structural  determinations  by NMR and  FTIR.
	Liquid-Vapour equilibrium between phases, at moderate pressures.
	Liquid-liquid equilibrium between phases , at moderate pressures.
	Gas chromatography with FID and electron capture.
	Energies or enthalpies of phase changes.
	Volumetric quantities of liquids and gases at high pressure.
	Determination of vapor pressure curves of pure substances.
	Advanced studies about the metanol incidence and others, such as ethers and esters in new liquid fuel.
	Studies about new refrigerant fluids with a low environmental impact.
	Quality control of liquid fuels.
	Studies on the use of new “ecological” fluids, ionic liquids, and its involvement in the industrial world.
	Characterization of substances.
	Purification of substances by rectification and other treatment.
	others…

- Theoretical aspects:
	Statistical treatment of experimental data.
	Mathematical modeling of the volumetric behavior of fluids.
	Advanced studies on the behavior and structure of fluid matter.
	Studies on correlations using advanced algorithms such as neural networks, genetic, and so on.
	others…

B) Thermal instrumentation

Some works are begun about optimization of availaible instrumentation with own designs and improvements, in order to automate systems of measure in constant regime and improvement of the electronic equipment for more accurate measurements.

To propose and to standardize procedures of calibration.