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Solubility of Natural Gas in Diesel Fuel
Author(s) -
Barth Jakob,
Ripperger Siegfried,
Hörhammer Christoph,
Flierl Rudolf
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201600091
Subject(s) - solubility , methane , diesel fuel , hexadecane , mole fraction , chemistry , natural gas , mass fraction , fraction (chemistry) , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , physics
The solubility of commercially available natural gas in commercially available diesel fuel at room temperature and defined pressure is investigated experimentally. The gas phase is considered to be pure methane. The use of Henry's law to model the solubility is discussed. Solubility is given in terms of the mole fraction and the volumetric mass concentration of dissolved gas and the corresponding Henry's coefficients. The solubility is compared to that of pure methane in pure hexadecane, which is similar to diesel fuel with respect to the mean carbon number.