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Chemically Authentic Surrogate Mixture Model for the Thermophysical Properties of a Coal-Derived-Liquid Fuel

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Marcia L. Huber, Eric W. Lemmon, Vladimir Diky, Beverly L. Smith, Thomas J. Bruno

Abstract

We developed a surrogate mixture model to represent the physical properties of a coal-derived liquid fuel using only information obtained from a gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of the fuel and a recently developed ¿advanced distillation curve¿. We then predicted the density, speed of sound and viscosity of the fuel and compared with limited experimental data. The surrogate contains five components (propylcyclohexane, trans-decalin, ¿-methyldecalin, bicyclohexane and n-hexadecane) yet comparisons with limited experimental data demonstrate the model is able to represent the density, sound speed and viscosity to within 1 %, 4 %, and 5 %, respectively.
Citation
Energy and Fuels
Volume
22
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

coal-derived fuel, distillation curve, Helmholtz free energy, predictive model, surrogate

Citation

Huber, M. , Lemmon, E. , Diky, V. , Smith, B. and Bruno, T. (2008), Chemically Authentic Surrogate Mixture Model for the Thermophysical Properties of a Coal-Derived-Liquid Fuel, Energy and Fuels, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50666 (Accessed April 26, 2024)

Created August 8, 2008, Updated January 27, 2020