Viscosity of twelve hydrocarbon liquids in the temperature range 298–348 K at pressures up to 110 MPa

Abstract

New experimental data on the viscosity of 12 organic liquids are presented at temperatures of 25, 30, 50, and 75°C and at pressures up to 110 MPa. The liquids measured are five n-alkanes (C₆, C₇, C₈, C₁₀, C₁₂), cyclohexane, and six aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-, m-, p-xylenes). The measurements were performed using a torsionally vibrating crystal method on a relative basis with an uncertainty less than 2%. A linear relationship between fluidity and molar volume, which is predicted from the hard-sphere theory, fails at pressures above 50 MPa. The rough hard-sphere model proposed by Chandler provides a reasonable representation of the data for aromatic hydrocarbons, while for n-alkanes the agreement is not satisfactory because of an aspherical shape of molecules. The viscosity data can be correlated well with the molar volume by a free-volume expression and also can be represented as a function of pressure by a similar expression to the Tait equation.