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Critical point measurement of some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Nikitin, E. D.[Eugene D.], Popov, A. P.[Alexander P.]
J. Chem. Thermodyn. 2015, 80, 124-127
ABSTRACT
The critical temperatures and the critical pressures of five polycyclic aromatic compounds, namely, acenaphthene, fluorene, anthracene, phenanthrene, and pyrene have been measured. All the compounds studied decompose at near-critical temperatures. A pulse-heating technique applicable to measuring the critical properties of thermally unstable compounds has been used. The times from the beginning of a heating pulse to the moment of reaching the critical temperature were from (0.06 to 0.85) ms. The short residence times provide little degradation of the substances in the course of the experiments. The experimental critical parameters of the polycyclic aromatic compounds have been compared with those estimated by five predictive methods. The acentric factors of polycyclic aromatic compounds studied have been calculated.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 C12H10 acenaphthene
2 C13H10 fluorene
3 C14H10 anthracene
4 C14H10 phenanthrene
5 C16H10 pyrene
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above). POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied; the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.
Type Compound-# Property Variable Constraint Phase Method #Points
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Critical temperature, K ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Critical pressure, kPa ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 2
  • Critical temperature, K ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 2
  • Critical pressure, kPa ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 3
  • Critical temperature, K ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 3
  • Critical pressure, kPa ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 4
  • Critical temperature, K ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 4
  • Critical pressure, kPa ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 5
  • Critical temperature, K ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 5
  • Critical pressure, kPa ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • pulse heating
  • 1