Origin of the Nucleation Rate Empirical Data Inconsistencies for the Vapor-Gas Systems

Abstract

Independent results for vapor nucleation rates illustrate the nucleation rates inconsistencies for identical vapor-gas systems at the same conditions. Nature of these inconsistencies is not yet understood enough. Assumption is discussed that a reason for the experimental data inconsistencies is appeared in the result of the carrier gas effects on nucleation. It was supposed for a long time that any carrier gas is an ambient atmosphere to keep the nucleation temperature only. The recent experimental results have shown that a vapor-gas nucleation needs to be treated in approximation of binary solutions, i. e. a composition axis is appeared in addition to axes of nucleation rate versus pressure. Each single line of a nucleation rate isotherm is transformed to surface in a three dimensional space of nucleation parameters. Flow diffusion chamber and expansion Wilson type set up data comparison are discussed on the example of the published empirical data. It was shown using a model system that these two experimental realizations produce the inconsistent trajectories in the space of nucleation parameters. That misfit induces the different origin data inconsistencies and demonstrates relevance of gas treatment as an individual component of a nucleating vapor-gas system.