In our previous study (Partanen,
J. I.; Partanen, L. J.; Vahteristo,
K. P., J. Chem. Eng. Data
2019, 64, 16–33), we presented a fully traceable two-parameter
Hückel equation with parameters B and b
1 for activity and osmotic coefficients in dilute
KCl(aq) in the temperature range of (273.15 to 383.15) K. This equation
applies within experimental error to almost all thermodynamic data
in the literature at least up to a molality of 0.2 mol·kg–1. In our Hückel model, parameter B is treated as a constant, whereas parameter b
1 depends quadratically on the temperature. In the present
study, the same model is applied to the molar enthalpies of the components
in KCl solutions. No new parameter estimations are necessary for the
treatment of these calorimetric data. We also extend now the previous
enthalpy results for dilute NaCl solutions (see Partanen, J. I.; Partanen,
L. J.; Vahteristo, K. P., J. Chem. Eng. Data
2017, 62, 2717–2632) up to 373 K because
in that study the treatment of calorimetric data was limited only
up to 353 K. In a future publication (Part 2 of this study), it will
be shown that this Hückel model applies additionally well to
the heat-capacity literature available for dilute KCl solutions. Here,
we also consider a second parametrization of the Hückel equation
for KCl solutions obtained in a previous work (Partanen, J. I., J. Chem. Eng. Data
2016, 59, 286–306). This is seen to apply better to enthalpy data
in less dilute KCl solutions up to the saturated solutions in the
range of (298 to 303) K. However, the alternative parametrization
is not fully traceable and not as accurate as our primary one. Following
the success of these Hückel models, we supplement the thermodynamic
tables for KCl solutions with the relative apparent and partial molar
enthalpies of KCl in these solutions from (273.15 to 373.15) K. We
also give here the values of these quantities for NaCl in dilute aqueous
NaCl solutions at 373.15 K. We have good reason to believe that the
new tables contain the most reliable values available for the enthalpy
quantities of dilute NaCl and KCl solutions.