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Diffusion of benzene, toluene, naphthalene, and phenanthrene in supercritical dense 2,3‐dimethylbutane
Author(s) -
Sun C. K. J.,
Chen S. H.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690311115
Subject(s) - supercritical fluid , phenanthrene , toluene , naphthalene , benzene , chemistry , diffusion , thermal diffusivity , taylor dispersion , thermodynamics , dispersion (optics) , molecular diffusion , chemical physics , analytical chemistry (journal) , organic chemistry , physics , optics , metric (unit) , operations management , economics
The conditions under which the Taylor‐Aris dispersion phenomenon can be employed to generate accurate tracer diffusion data in supercritical dense fluids are established. The technique is used to determine the diffusivities of benzene, toluene, naphthalene, and phenanthrene in supercritical dense 2,3‐dimethylbutane as a function of temperature and pressure. A molecular theory incorporating the Sung‐Stell formulation of molecular dynamic correlations in smooth‐hardsphere fluids and the Baleiko‐Davis molecular roughness for polyatomics with the Enskog‐Thorne dense gas diffusivity relationship is found to represent our experimental data to within ±4%. The values of the effective hard‐sphere diameters involved in the present theory can be predicted fairly accurately from the critical volumes of the solutes and solvent considered here.