Short Fundamental Equations of State for 20 Industrial Fluids

Published

April 11, 2006

Author(s)

Eric W. Lemmon, Roland Span

Abstract

In a preceding project, functional forms for "short" Helmholtz equations of state for typical non- and weakly polar fluids and for typical polar fluids were developed by simultaneous optimization. The coefficients of these equations of state were fitted to data sets of 15 non- and weakly polar fluids and of 12 typical polar fluids, which were mostly used in the simultaneous optimization procedure. In this project, equations of state have been developed for the fluids acetone, carbon monoxide, carbonyl sulfide, decane, hydrogen sulfide, isohexane, isopentane, krypton, neopentane, nitrous oxide, nonane, sulfur dioxide, toluene, xenon, R-116, R-141b, R-142b, R-218, R-227ea, and R-41. The functional forms used are identical with those described above ¿ only the 12 coefficients of the equations of state were fitted to substance specific data sets, while the simultaneously optimized functional forms (the combination of polynomial and exponential terms with the temperature and density exponents) were left unchanged. The results prove that simultaneously optimized functional forms can be applied to other fluids out of the class of fluids for which they were optimized without significant loss of accuracy. The high numerical stability of the functional forms resulted in succesful fits for fluids which could not be described previously by accurate empirical equations of state. Typical uncertainties of properties calculated using the new equations are 0.2% in density at pressures up to 30 MPa, 0.5% at higher pressures, 1% to 2% in heat capacities, and 0.2% in vapor pressure. Deviations in the critical region are higher for all properties except vapor pressure.

Citation

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data

Volume

51

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

acetone, caloric properties, carbon monoxide, carbonyl sulfide, decane, density, equation of state, fundamental equation, hydrogen sulfide, isohexane, isopentane, krypton, neopentane, nitrous oxide, nonane, sulfur dioxide, thermodynamic properties, toluene, xenon, R-116, R-141b, R-142b, R-218, R-227ea, R-41

Citation

Lemmon, E. and Span, R. (2006), Short Fundamental Equations of State for 20 Industrial Fluids, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data (Accessed December 16, 2024)