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Abstract
A modified form of the well-known Tsonopoulos correlation for second virial coefficients was developed based on the corresponding-states
principle. Comparisons with the new, high-quality experimental data and existing models show that the present correlation is more accurate,
reliable and satisfactory for nonpolar compounds. The results also show that the present work is roughly equivalent to the Tsonopoulos and
Weber correlations for second virial coefficients of polar fluids.
The Weber correlation for the third virial coefficients was also improved since it did not well represent the experimental data of nonpolar
gases. The new correlation gives a satisfactory fit for nonpolar compounds as the Orbey and Vera correlation did and can also accurately
represent the literature data for the third virial coefficients of polar fluids, which was well represented by the Weber correlation. The two
correlations for the second and third virial coefficients need the same additional parameters, such as the critical temperature, critical pressure,
acentric factor and reduced dipole moment.
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enhance the prediction accuracy and reliability based on the lowing widely used expression:
corresponding-states form, which accounts for nonspherical BPc
effects and dipole moment effects, while neglecting chemical Br = = f (0) (Tr ) + ωf (1) (Tr ) + f (2) (Tr ) (1)
RTc
associations and quantum effects.
For the third virial coefficients, due to the relatively large where
uncertainties in the experimental measurements, reliable data 0.330 0.1385 0.0121 0.000607
is scarce. Theoretical calculations with potential energy func- f (0) = 0.1445 − − − −
Tr Tr2 Tr3 Tr8
tions used are tedious and, for accurate results, require cor- (2a)
rections to the assumption of pairwise additivity which are at
0.331 0.423 0.008
best known only approximately. In this work, we have col- f (1) = 0.0637 + − − (2b)
lected and examined the limited amount of experimental third Tr2 Tr3 Tr8
virial coefficients now available and correlated them as best a
as we can. f (2) = (3)
Tr6
In 1957, Pitzer and Curl [1] proposed a very successful cor-
relation for the second virial coefficients of nonpolar gases, In Eq. (1), Tr (=T/Tc ) is the reduced temperature, Pc
which was the basis for several later correlations. O’Connell and Tc are the critical pressure and critical temperature,
and Prausnitz [2], Tsonopoulos [3,4], Tarakad and Danner R = 8.314472 J mol−1 K−1 is the universal gas constant, and
[5], Orbey [6], Weber [7], and Hayden and O’Connell [8] ω is the acentric factor. f(0) was obtained by fitting data for
presented various modified Pitzer–Curl correlations which small spherical molecules (ω = 0), such as argon. Then f(1)
refitted the coefficients of the Pitzer–Curl correlation, added was obtained from data for larger, nonspherical, nonpolar
polar and hydrogen bonding terms, applied new parameters, molecules (ω = 0), such as butane and octane. f(2) was ob-
and so on. However, most inevitably suffered from adsorption tained from data for nonhydrogen bonding polar molecules.
effects. A large amount of second virial coefficient data have Initially, these functions gave good agreement with data for B
become available since 1980, some of which were corrected of nonpolar gases, especially at reduced temperatures below
for physical adsorption effects, as mentioned in Dymond et 0.75. But more recent, more accurate values from PVT and
al. [9]. This work presents a new correlation using the se- speed of sound measurements have indicated that the result-
lected data of Dymond’s compilation for nonpolar gases, po- ing B’s were too negative at subcritical temperatures [9]. Eq.
lar haloalkanes and other nonhydrogen bonding polar gases. (3) is very important at reduced temperatures less than unity
For the third virial coefficients, Rowlinson [10] calcu- for representing the behavior of polar fluids. The parameter
lated the third virial coefficients of polar molecules from a is proposed to be a function of the reduced dipole moment
the Stockmayer potential [11], assuming pairwise additivity. µr , defined as follows:
Hirschfelder et al. [12] showed that it is a strong function of µ2 Pc
the reduced dipole moment for polar gases. Chueh and Praus- µr = (4)
1.01325Tc2
nitz [13] proposed a corresponding-states correlation which
does not allow calculations in the absence of data. Santis and where µ is the dipole moment in Debye
Grande [14] proposed a modified correlation which requires (1D = 3.33564 × 10−30 C m), Tc is in kelvins and Pc is
additional dipole polarizability of a molecule and Bondi’s in pascals. The second virial coefficients of polar com-
molecular volume [15]. The correlation of Pope et al. [16] pounds are more negative than those of nonpolar compounds
can only be used for compounds with an acentric factor not (for the same Tr and ω). Thus, a should be negative.
exceeding 0.1. In 1983, Orbey and Vera [17] provided a par- However, a usually becomes slightly positive for µr < 100.
ticularly simple and effective correlation for nonpolar gases. This spurious behavior arises from the fact that the measured
Van Nhu et al. [18] gave a correlation which was linked to the acentric factor is also affected by the presence of the dipole
second virial coefficients with additional knowledge of the moment, causing an overcorrection when calculating B.
virial coefficients of hard convex body molecule. The Bosse To solve this problem, Weber [7] deleted the last term
and Reich [19] correlation and the Besher and Lielmezs [20] in Eq. (2b), which is assumed to cause the problem. For
correlation were not generalized and had limited applicabil- the halogenated methanes and ethanes of interest in the
ity. Weber [7] presented a successful correlation for polar refrigeration industry, Tsonopoulos [4] and Weber [7] gave
haloalkanes adapting the model of Van Nhu et al. [18] using the following expressions:
the critical volume, but the result does not well represent the
aTsonopoulos = −2.188 × 10−11 µ4r − 7.831 × 10−21 µ8r (5)
experimental data for nonpolar fluids.
aWeber = −9 × 10−7 µ2r (6)
Eq. (1) is also used in this work. For nonpolar fluids, Eqs.
(2a) and (2b) are redefined here as
0.30252 0.15668
f (0) = 0.13356 − −
Tr Tr2
0.00724 0.00022
− − (8)
Tr3 Tr8
0.15581 0.38183
f (1) = 0.17404 − +
Tr Tr2
0.44044 0.00541
− − (9)
Tr3 Tr8
Fig. 1. Br = f (0) (Tr ): (- - -) Tsonopoulos [3]; (· · ·) Pitzer–Curl [1]; (—)
Eqs. (8) and (9) were determined by fitting experimental data present work.
which mainly came from the compilation of Dymond et al.
[9]. The first term, f (0) , was determined by fitting the B data
for Ar, Kr and Xe, which have nearly zero acentric factors.
f (1) was determined by fitting the data for the C1 –C8 nor-
mal alkanes, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and benzene.
Since the acentric factor of argon is not strictly equal to zero,
but is −0.0022, the final determination of f (0) was made by
iterative repetition. To reduce the adsorption effects, f (0) was
determined by heavily weighting the PVT data of Gilgen et
al. [21] and the speed of sound data of Estrada-Alexanders
and Trusler [22] for argon, since they are in excellent agree-
ment with each other. Comparison of our estimated results
with the recommended values for argon given by Dymond
et al. [9] shows that our correlation can represent B of argon Fig. 2. Deviations of measured second virial coefficient data for ar-
within the experimental uncertainties for 75 to 1000 K. Fur- gon (ω = −0.0022) from the present correlation: () Gilgen et al. [21];
thermore, our calculated results also are in excellent agree- ( ) Estrada-Alexanders and Trusler [22]; (- - -) Tsonopoulos [3]; (· · ·)
ment with those derived from the potential energy function Pitzer–Curl [1]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
of Aziz and Slaman [23]. Hence, f (0) provides a more reli-
able basis for establishing f (1) and f (2) . The data of Gupta tainties, which led to their unreliable values. Fig. 2 shows that
and Eubank [24], which have been corrected for the physical the present results are in excellent agreement with the exper-
adsorption effects for butane, were weighted heavily to deter- imental data for argon over the entire range of temperatures,
mine f (1) . f (0) and f (1) decrease so steeply with decreasing while the other correlations are obviously too negative at
temperature for Tr < 0.75 that B could not be represented by subcritical temperatures. For example, the values calculated
cubic polynomials over the entire temperature range, so the
last terms in Eqs. (8) and (9) were added. In addition, a Tr−1
term was also added to f (1) . The three different correlations
for f (0) are compared in Fig. 1.
In Fig. 1, the values of B of our correlation are less neg-
ative than those of the Tsonopoulos correlation but lower
than those of the Pitzer–Curl correlation for Tr < 0.75, where
the adsorption effects are significant. The results show that
the present correlation effectively improves the Tsonopoulos
correlation with its too negative values at low temperatures.
The second virial coefficients for argon, methane, ethane,
butane and benzene, representative nonpolar compounds,
predicted by the present correlation are compared to experi-
mental data in Figs. 2–6. First, the selection of the literature
Fig. 3. Deviations of measured second virial coefficients for methane from
data was made taking account of the recommendation by
the present correlation: () Roe [25]; () Haendel et al. [26]; () Trusler
Dymond et al. [9]. Not all the data available in the litera- [27]; ( ) Michels et al. [28]; () Trappeniers et al. [29]; () Hou et al.
ture were shown in the figures, since some older data were [30]; (♦) Douslin et al. [31]; (䊉) Holleran [32]; (- - -) Tsonopoulos [3]; (· · ·)
suffered from physical adsorption effects or had large uncer- Pitzer–Curl [1]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
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Weber [7] indicated that the first two terms of Eq. (10) are not
sufficient to give the optimum value for a of strongly polar
fluids, therefore, µ4r and µ6r terms were added to correlate the
optimum value for a of both weakly and strongly polar fluids.
Since the 1990s, a large amount of new experimental data
have been reported for R22, R32, and R134a. Accordingly,
these three substances were heavily weighted in developing
a new fit for haloalkanes:
Table 1
Optimum values and RMSD for some polar fluids
Substance µr Optimum a RMSD (cm3 mol−1 )
Present work Tsonopoulos Weber
R11 3.97 0.00614 33.4 35.3 28.2
R12 7.16 0.00171 10.2 16.9 8.9
R13 10.92 0.00856 4.7 6.0 4.2
R22 76.76 −0.00469 8.3 11.9 14.2
R23 144.77 −0.01469 4.9 3.7 3.6
R32 180.95 −0.02586 7.8 5.4 7.9
R40 136.80 −0.01053 10.7 10.2 13.0
R41 198.08 −0.05129 5.7 6.3 8.9
R114 7.93 0.00264 23.3 35.4 18.3
R115 6.68 0.01404 11.0 13.5 12.2
R141b 77.50 −0.00132 54.8 37.0 7.7
R142b 109.29 −0.00452 22.6 15.3 21.4
R123 31.84 −0.00091 6.5 22.8 76.2
R124 49.36 −0.00069 10.8 5.7 21.3
R125 75.82 0.00069 7.7 4.5 4.5
R134a 121.17 −0.00740 3.0 6.2 3.7
R143a 169.91 −0.01703 6.4 14.9 11.4
R152a 152.76 −0.01661 22.0 9.9 7.3
R227ea 43.58 0.00245 12.5 7.3 7.1
R236ea 25.90 −0.00078 21.6 25.7 28.1
Propanone 149.03 −0.03410 38.1 35.3
2-Butanone 111.29 −0.02313 65.5 74.1
2-Pentanone 84.42 −0.01803 163.6 142.8
3-Pentanone 92.84 −0.01308 65.9 76.9
Dimethyl ether 55.98 −0.01752 64.2 54.2
Diethyl ether 21.80 −0.00449 63.8 44.7
Diisopropyl ether 14.26 −0.00277 68.7 71.0
Ethanol 191.44 −0.04482 38.0 36.7
Acetonitrile 249.48 −0.12116 175.5 178.5
µr for other nonassociated polar compounds: developed the most reliable correlations for f (0) and f (1) ,
approaching the true values, Eq. (3) is perhaps not the best
a = −3.0309 × 10−6 µ2r + 9.503 × 10−11 µ4r polynomial form since f (2) is also expected to be effected by
− 1.2469 × 10−15 µ6r (12) the dipole’s direction and location within the molecule which
are important at low µr values. The predicted second virial
Here we roughly ignored the associating effects of nonhy- coefficients of R22, R32, R134a and R123 are compared with
drogen bonding compounds. Both equations are plotted in experimental data in Figs. 8–11. The results show how the
Fig. 7. The values of a for haloalkanes are mostly positive
for µr < 100 as already mentioned above. Although we have
Fig. 8. Deviations of measured second virial coefficients for R22 from the
present correlation: () Zander [42]; ( ) Lisal et al. [43]; () Schramm and
Fig. 7. Dependence of the polar parameter a on the reduced dipole moment Weber [44]; () Natour et al. [45]; (♦) Schramm et al. [46]; () Demiriz et
µr : (—) Eq. (11); (- - -) Eq. (12); ( ) optimum values for haloalkanes; (䊉) al. [47]; (䊉) Haendel et al. [48]; () Haworth and Sutton [49]; () Esper et
optimum values for other nonhydrogen bonding polar fluids. al. [50]; (- - -) Tsonopoulos [3]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
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C = Ch + (B − Bh )2 δc ϑ(Tr ) (13)
Fig. 15. Third virial coefficients of methane: (♦) Kleinrahm et al. [89]; () Fig. 18. Third virial coefficients of R134a: ( ) Qian et al. [57]; ()
Michels and Nederbragt [90]; () Trusler et al. [91]; () Dymond et al. [9]; Yokozeki et al. [97]; () Goodwin and Moldover [59]; (—) Eq. (15); (- -
(䊉) Haendel et al. [26]; ( ) Hoover et al. [92]; () Schamp et al. [93]; () -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
Douslin et al. [31]; () Roe [25]; () Pope et al. [16]; ( ) Trappeniers et
al. [29]; ( ) Holleran [32]; (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-)
Weber [7].
Fig. 19. Third virial coefficients of R143a: (♦) Yokozeki et al. [97]; ( )
Weber and Defibaugh [101]; () Nakamura et al. [102]; () Gillis [103];
Fig. 16. Third virial coefficients of R23: ( ) Timoshenko et al. [94]; () (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
Rasskazov et al. [95]; () Lange and Stein [96]; (♦) Yokozeki et al. [97];
(—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
that none of the three correlations can accurately represent
coefficients for both nonpolar fluids and polar haloalkanes. the experimental data derived from the speed of sound mea-
However, the predictions for weakly polar fluids are not as surements of Gillis [103]. The errors are probably due to poor
good. The results for R124 as an example, for which the value representation of B for weakly polar fluids since the determi-
of µr is only 49.36, are shown in Fig. 22. The result shows nation of C was related to B as expressed by Eq. (15). It is
Fig. 17. Third virial coefficients of R32: (♦) Sato et al. [52]; (䊉) Kuznetsov
and Los [98]; ( ) Zhang et al. [99]; () Yokozeki et al. [97]; () Fu et al. Fig. 20. Third virial coefficients of R152a: () Yokozeki et al. [97]; ( )
[100]; () Defibaugh et al. [53]; (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; Tamatsu et al. [104]; () Gillis [103]; (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera
(-·-·-) Weber [7]. [17]; (-·-·-) Weber [7].
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Fig. 21. Third virial coefficients of R125: (♦) Yokozeki et al. [97]; ( ) Ye Fig. 23. Third virial coefficients of ammonia: ( ) Adam and Schramm
et al. [105]; () Gillis [103]; () Boyes and Weber [106]; (䊉) Duarte-Garza [109]; () Glowka [81]; (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-)
et al. [107]; (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-) Weber [7]. Weber [7].
Fig. 24. Density deviations of argon from EOS of Tegeler et al. [110]; present
Fig. 22. Third virial coefficients of R124: () Gillis [103]; (䊉) Boyes and work: () 105.15 K, (䊉) 181.15 K, () 303.15 K, ( ) 453.15 K; Weber [7]:
Weber [108]; (—) Eq. (15); (- - -) Orbey and Vera [17]; (-·-·-) Weber [7]. () 105.15 K, ( ) 181.15 K, () 303.15 K, ( ) 453.15 K.
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Table 2
Estimated density uncertainties of nonpolar and polar fluids
Temperature range Density uncertainty of nonpolar fluids (%) Density uncertainty of polar fluids (%)
Pr < 0.6 0.6 < Pr < 0.7 Pr > 0.7 Pr < 0.3 0.3 < Pr < 1.0
Tr = 0.6–0.9 0.2 – – 0.2 –
Tr = 0.9–1.2 0.2 0.3 2.0 0.5 2
Tr >1.2 0.1 0.2 1.0 0.5 2
List of symbols
a parameter of polar contribution to B, f (2)
B, C second and third virial coefficients
f (0) , f (1) , f (2) dimensionless functions of Tr in B correla-
tions
Fig. 26. Density deviations of R134a from EOS of Tillner-Roth and P pressure
Baehr [112]; present work: () 228.15 K, (䊉) 298.15 K, () 338.15 K, R universal gas constant
( ) 373.15 K, () 449.15 K; Weber [7]: () 228.15 K, ( ) 298.15 K, () T temperature
338.15 K, ( ) 373.15 K; ( ) 449.15 K.
5. Conclusions Subscripts
c critical property
A modified correlation was developed for the second and cal calculated result
third virial coefficients of nonpolar and polar fluids. For exp experimental result
the second virial coefficients, the simple spherical term f (0) r reduced property (not including µr )
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