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Measurement of the Critical Parameters and the Saturation Densities of Dimethyl Ether

Wu, J.[Jiangtao], Liu, Z.[Zhigang], Wang, B.[Bin], Pan, J.[Jiang]
J. Chem. Eng. Data 2004, 49, 3, 704-708
ABSTRACT
On the basis of the direct visual observation of the meniscus disappearance and reappearance in an optical cell, 17 saturated liquid densities and 8 saturated vapor densities of dimethyl ether were measured in the temperature range from 301.816 K to the critical temperature, corresponding to a density range from (66.75 to 654.54) kg?m-3. The maximum uncertainties of the saturated liquid and vapor densities are ?0.15 kg?m-3 and ?0.10 kg?m-3, respectively. The uncertainties of temperature were estimated to be within ?5 mK. The critical temperature Tc and density c were determined as (400.378 ? 0.005) K and (272 ? 2) kg?m-3 by taking into consideration the meniscus disappearance and reappearance as well as the intensity of the critical opalescence. The critical pressure was (5356 ? 10) kPa extrapolated from the vapor pressures data with the Wagner equation. We have also determined the critical exponent and the critical amplitude B on the basis of a correlation of the vapor-liquid coexistence curve.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 C2H6O dimethyl ether
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 pressure, kPa ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • Extrapolated vapor pressure
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Critical temperature, K ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • Visual observation in an unstirred cell
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Critical density, kg/m3 ; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • OTHER
  • 1
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Mass density, kg/m3 ; Liquid
  • Temperature, K; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • ISOCHOR
  • 16
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Mass density, kg/m3 ; Gas
  • Temperature, K; Gas
  • Gas
  • Liquid
  • ISOCHOR
  • 7