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A new semi‐empirical equation for compressed liquid densities of n ‐alkanes
Author(s) -
Sun Yanjun,
Wang Xiaopo,
Liu Zhigang
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
asia‐pacific journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.348
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 1932-2135
DOI - 10.1002/apj.1677
Subject(s) - thermodynamics , work (physics) , critical point (mathematics) , compressed fluid , triple point , range (aeronautics) , absolute deviation , data point , reduced properties , mathematics , materials science , chemistry , statistical physics , physics , mathematical analysis , statistics , composite material
In this work, a new six‐parameter semi‐empirical equation has been developed for the predictions of the compressed liquid densities of n ‐alkanes from C 2 to C 10 . The resulting functional form was established with the quasi‐Newton optimization algorithm, which considers the experimental data sets for different fluids simultaneously. During the fitting process, the functional form of the equation is numerically very stable, and the substance‐specific coefficients can be obtained easily. The calculated values from the new model were compared with the available experimental data and the values from reference equations in the literature. In most cases, the deviations are not more than ±0.5% for temperatures up to 0.7 times the critical temperature, whereas the agreement is within ±1.0% in the temperature range from the triple point to the critical point at reduced pressure up to 15. It was shown that the new semi‐empirical equation was able to represent the compressed liquid densities of n ‐alkanes in wide thermodynamic ranges. © 2012 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.