Thermodynamics Research Center / ThermoML | Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics

ABSTRACT

This work reports the dynamic viscosity data (a total of 72 points) of a series of primary amines which exhibit small association consisting of pentylamine, hexylamine and heptylamine at four temperatures between (293.15 and 353.15) K (every 20 K), and pressures up to 100 MPa (every 20 MPa) which allows to study the influence of the chain length. A falling body viscometer with an uncertainty of +-2% was used to perform these measurements. The variations of dynamic viscosity are discussed with respect to their behavior due to chain length. Six different models, most of them with a physical and theoretical background, are studied in order to investigate how they take the chain length influence and effect into account through their required model parameters. The evaluated models are based on the empirical Vogel Fulcher Tamman (VFT) representation (combined with Tait-like equation), the rough hard-sphere scheme, the concept of the free-volume, the friction theory and a correlation derived from molecular dynamics. A recent scaling viscosity model has also been considered. These models need some adjustable parameters except the molecular dynamic correlation which is entirely predictive. Overall a satisfactory representation of the viscosity of these amines is found for the different models within the considered T, p range taking into account their simplicity. Moreover it has been verified that the viscosity is a unique function of TVc where the exponent c is related to the steepness of the intermolecular repulsive potential (T: temperature, and V: specific volume).