GLOBAL PHASE DIAGRAMS OF MODEL AND REAL BINARY FLUID MIXTURES: LORENTZ-BERTHELOT MIXTURE OF ATTRACTIVE HARD SPHERES Jiˇr´ı Kolafa a , Ivo Nezbeda a,b , Jan Pavl´ıˇcek a , and William R. Smith c , a E. H´ ala Laboratory of Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamen- tals, Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic b Department of Physics, J. E. Purkynˇe University, 400 96 ´ Ust´ı n. Lab., Czech Republic c Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 (October 17, 1999) Keywords: equation of state, mixture, global phase diagram, boundary state, hard sphere mixture, augmented van der Waals equation 1