Isochoric Heat Capacity of CO2 + n-Decane Mixtures in the Critical Region

The isochoric heat capacity of two binary (CO2 +n-decane) mixtures (0.095 and 0.178 mole fraction of n-decane) have been measured with a hightemperature, high-pressure, nearly constant volume adiabatic calorimeter. Measurements were made at nineteen near-critical liquid and vapor densities between 87 and 658 kg ·m−3 for the composition of 0.095 mole fraction n-decane and at nine densities between 83 and 458 kg · m−3 for the composition of 0.178 mole fraction n-decane. The range of temperatures was 295 to 568 K. These temperature and density ranges include near- and supercritical regions. The measurements were performed in both one- and two-phase regions including the vapor + liquid coexistence curve. The uncertainty of the heat- capacity measurements is estimated to be 2% (coverage factor k = 2). The uncertainty in temperature is 15 mK, and that for density measurements is 0.06%. The liquid and vapor one-(C V 1,C V 1) and two-phase (C V 2,C V 2) isochoric heat capacities, temperatures (TS), and densities (ρS) at saturation were measured by using the well-established method of quasi-static thermograms for each filling density. The critical temperatures (TC), the critical densities (ρC), and the critical pressure (PC) for the CO2 + n-decane mixtures were extracted from the isochoric heat-capacity measurements on the coexistence curve. The observed isochoric heat capacity along the critical isochore of the CO2 +n-decane mixture exhibits a renormalization of the critical behavior of CVX typical for mixtures. The values of the characteristic parameters (K1, K2), temperatures (τ1, τ2), and the characteristic density differences ( ρ¯1, ρ¯2) were estimated for the CO2+n-decane mixture by using the critical-curve data and the theory of critical phenomena in