Abstract: The rigorous critical state criteria based on Helmholtz free energy is used with equations of state fordirect calculation of critical properties(T_c,P_c and V_c)of 44 binary and 5 ternary systems.Special at-tention is paid to systems containing polar component(s)and the improvement in critical volume prediction.For extending this method to polar systems,the recently developed Cubic Chain-of-Rotators equation ofstate has been applied.As compared with SRK and PR equations of state,the improvement in V_c pre-diction is most impressive.