Measurements of the thermal conductivity of propane performed in a coaxial cylinder cell operating in steady state conditions are reported. The measurements of the thermal conductivity of propane were carried out along eight quasi-isotherms above the critical temperature. The present data cover the temperature range from (370.83 to 381.00) K, and the pressure range (0.1 to 15) MPa. An analysis of the various sources of error leads to an estimated uncertainty of approximately 3 %. The parameters of a background equation were determined from experimental data in order to analyze the critical enhancement of the thermal conductivity as a function of temperature and density. On the basis of the measurement of more than 500 experimental points, a phenomenological equation is provided to describe the thermal conductivity of propane, from the critical temperature 369.825 K to 600 K and densities up to 550 kg*m 3. This equation can be generalized to calculate the supercritical behavior of the thermal conductivity for any fluid.
Compounds
#
Formula
Name
1
C3H8
propane
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
Thermal conductivity, W/m/K ; Fluid (supercritical or subcritical phases)
Temperature, K; Fluid (supercritical or subcritical phases)
Pressure, kPa; Fluid (supercritical or subcritical phases)