Thermal Diffusion and Molecular Diffusion Values for Some Alkane Mixtures: A Comparison between Thermogravitational Column and Thermal Diffusion Forced Rayleigh Scattering

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• 作者：Pablo Blanco ; Pavel Polyakov ; M. Mounir Bou-Ali ; Simone Wiegand
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：July 17, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：112
• 期：28
• 页码：8340 - 8345
• 全文大小：111K
• 年卷期：v.112,no.28(July 17, 2008)
• ISSN：1520-5207

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In the present work we studied the thermal diffusion behavior of n-decane in various alkanes by thermogravitational column (TC) technique and the thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering (TDFRS) method. The investigated lighter alkanes compared to n-decane are n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, and the heavier ones are n-tetradecane, n-pentadecane, n-hexadecane, n-heptadecane, n-octadecane, and n-eicosane. The binary mixture n-decane/n-pentane we investigated at several different concentrations; all other mixtures were only investigated at a mass fraction of 50%. Even for the volatile n-pentane/n-decane mixture the deviations between the thermal diffusion coefficients determined by the different methods agreed within the error bars. Typically the agreement between the two methods was in the order of 5%. In comparison to recently published TC and TDFRS data we found deviations in the order of 30% up to 40%. We analyze and discuss the possible reasons for the discrepancies for the present and the past publications.