Predicting the Surface Tension of Refrigerants from Density Gradient Theory and Perturbed Hard-sphere Equation of State

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1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, 71961, Iran

2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, 71961, Iran

Abstract

The surface tensions of pure refrigerants were predicted using a density gradient theory (DGT) coupled with a perturbed hard-sphere equation of state (EoS) approach. The EoS is taken from the Carnahan –Starling hard-sphere equation with the perturbation term of Dohm-Prausnitz (CS-DP EoS), in which the relevant parameters to the molecular size and energies are universal functions of temperature in describing the equilibrium bulk properties. Then DGT+CS-DP EoS model has been employed for predicting the surface tension of 26 pure refrigerants taken from a Chemistry Webbook provided by NIST. Our calculations on the surface tension data from the DGT+CS-DP model led to an average absolute deviation of 4.84%. Then, the degree of accuracy of DGT+CS-DP model has also been compared with other DGT-based model.

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Predicting the Surface Tension of Refrigerants from Density Gradient Theory and Perturbed Hard-sphere Equation of State

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Physical Chemistry Research
Volume 9, Issue 4 - Serial Number 32
December 2021
Pages 661-671

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  • Receive Date: 02 May 2021
  • Revise Date: 01 July 2021
  • Accept Date: 10 July 2021

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