Calculation of Thermal Pressure Coefficient of Dense C₁₅H₃₂, C₁₇H₃₆, C₁₈H₃₈ and C₁₉H₄₀ Using pVT Data

Vahid Moeini, Abol Ghasem Mahdianfar

Department of Chemistry, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2012.311219                

Abstract

The thermal pressure coefficients in liquid n-Pentadecane (C15), n-Heptadecane (C17), n-octadecane (C18) and n-nonadecane (C19) was measured using pVT data. The measurements were carried out at pressures up to 150 MPa in the temperature range from 293 to 383 K. The experimental results have been used to evaluate various thermophysical properties such as thermal pressure coefficients up to 150 MPa with the use of density and temperature data at various pressures. New parameters of the linear isotherm regularity, the so-called LIR equation of state, are used to calculate of thermal pressure coefficients of n-Pentadecane (C15), n-Heptadecane (C17), n-octadecane (C18) and n-nonadecane (C19) dense fluids. In this paper, temperature dependency of linear isotherm regularity parameters in the form of a first order has been developed to second and third order and their temperature derivatives of new parameters are used to calculate thermal pressure coefficients. The resulting model predicts accurately thermal pressure coefficients from the lower density limit at the Boyle density at the from triple temperature up to about double the Boyle temperature. The upper density limit appears to be reached at 1.4 times the Boyle density. These problems have led us to try to establish a function for the accurate calculation of the thermal pressure coefficients based on the linear isotherm regularity theory for different fluids.

Keywords

Thermal Pressure Coefficient; Petroleum Industry; Molecular System; The Helmholtz Energy; Lennard-Jones (12, 6)

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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