Calculation the surface tension of heptane, eicosane, docosane, tetracosane, and their asymmetric mixtures.
A method to calculate and predict the surface tension of n-alkanes including heptane, eicosane, docosane, tetracosane, and their asymmetric mixtures has been proposed. Reduced coordinates, sigma(*) and T(*), where sigma(*) is the reduced surface tension and T(*) is the reduced temperature, are introduced for the prediction of surface tension. According to the phenomenological scaling and considering the law of corresponding states correlation, these reduced coordinates result in a single curve for the surface tension as a function of temperature. In the correlation the melting temperature, T(m), is applied as the corresponding temperature for these substances and their mixtures. The relationship between sigma(*) and T(*) has a linear form and is expressed by sigma(*) = a + bT(*), where a and b are temperature-independent constants. With this relationship the predicted values of surface tension of these substances and their mixtures are in good agreement with experimental ones. %AAD, percent average absolute deviation, for these four pure n-alkanes is 1.02% and for their four asymmetric mixtures is less than 0.70%.[1]References
- Calculation the surface tension of heptane, eicosane, docosane, tetracosane, and their asymmetric mixtures. Sheikh, S. Journal of colloid and interface science. (2005) [Pubmed]
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