Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.49, No.4, 809-825, 2004
Thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of twenty-nine liquids: Alkenes, cyclic (alkanes, alkenes, alkadienes, aromatics), and deuterated hydrocarbons
Experimental values of the thermal conductivity lambda and thermal diffusivity a of 29 pure substances are presented in the temperature range of -15 degreesC to 65 degreesC under atmospheric or saturation pressure. The materials measured were as follows: alkenes (1-pentene, 1-hexene, 1-heptene, 1-octene, 2,3-dimethyl-1-butene, 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene), cycloalkenes (cyclopentene, cyclohexene), cycloalkanes (cyclopentane, cyclohexane, methylcyclopentane, cycloheptane, cyclooctane), aromatics and their relatives (benzene, ethylbenzene, o-, m-, and p-xylenes, propylbenzene, isopropylbenzene, hemimellitene, pseudocumene, mesitylene, 1,3-cyclohexadiene, 1,4-cyclohexadiene, bicyclo[2.2.1]hepta-2,5-diene [norbornadiene]), and deuterated hydrocarbons (benzene-d(6), cyclohexane-d(12), toluene-d(8)). Measurements were made with the transient hot-wire method in the manner previously presented, and the thermal diffusivity values were corrected by reference to the heat capacity of heptane as a reference material. Heat capacities (volumic, c(p)rho; massic, c(p); molar, C-m,C-p) were complementally derived from the relationship c(p)rho = lambda/a, with values for the density and the molar mass. The uncertainty of the data is estimated to be 0.4% for the thermal conductivity (absolutely measured) and about 1.8% for the thermal diffusivity (with a coverage factor of k(p) = 2; p = 95%), although that of lambda (not of a) is possibly inferior for a few substances containing slightly more impurities (i.e., mainly other isomers).