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Speed-of-Sound Measurements in Compressed Nitrogen and Dry Air

Meier, K.[Karsten], Kabelac, S.[Stephan]
J. Chem. Eng. Data 2016, 61, 11, 3941-3951
ABSTRACT
This paper reports accurate measurements of the speed of sound in compressed pure nitrogen and a synthetic ternary mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and argon with a composition close to that of natural dry air. The data have been measured by a double-path-length pulse-echo technique and cover the temperature ranges between 275 and 400 K for nitrogen and between 240 and 420 K for the dry air mixture with pressures up to 100 MPa. The expanded uncertainties (at the 0.95 confidence level) amount to 2.1 mK for temperature, 50 ppm for pressure, 80 ppm for speed of sound in nitrogen, and 110 ppm for speed of sound in the dry air mixture.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 N2 nitrogen
2 Ar argon
3 O2 oxygen
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
  • Speed of sound, m/s ; Gas
  • Temperature, K; Gas
  • Pressure, kPa; Gas
  • Frequency, MHz; Gas
  • Gas
  • Pulse-echo method
  • 71
  • POMD
  • 2
  • 1
  • 3
  • Speed of sound, m/s ; Gas
  • Temperature, K; Gas
  • Pressure, kPa; Gas
  • Mole fraction - 1; Gas
  • Mole fraction - 3; Gas
  • Frequency, MHz; Gas
  • Gas
  • Pulse-echo method
  • 140