Experimental Study on Isobaric Specific Heat Capacity of Ethane and Ethane+Propane at Low Temperature
In this paper,a flow calorimeter was developed for the measurement of isobaric specific heat capacity(cp)at low temperature.The calorimeter was composed of four parts:thermostatic bath,flow system,calorimeter and data acquisition system.The calorimeter can measure the cp in the temperature range of 115~340 K,and the pressure can reach 8 MPa.The uncertainty of temperature,pressure and heat capacity were 11 mK,0.02 MPa and 0.9%,respectively.The cp data of propane,isobutane,ethane and ethane+propane binary mixtures at low temperature were measured.The measured data showed a good agreement with the calculated values of high-precision Helmholtz equation of state.The average absolute relative deviations of propane,isobutane,ethane and ethane+propane was 0.26%,0.32%,0.31%and 0.38%,respectively,which verified the reliability of the device.
low temperature flow calorimeterisobaric specific heat capacityethane(R170)propane(R290)isobutane(R600a)