Saturated liquid viscosity correlations for alternative refrigerants

Abstract

This article presents dimensionless equations for the temperature dependence of the saturated liquid viscosity of R32, R123, R124, R125, R134a, R141b, and R152a valid over a temperature range of engineering interest. The correlation has the form m" -A ~D-+BTD where ~D is the dimensionless fluidity (l/r/D) and TD is a dimensionless temperature, n, A, and B are evaluated for each of the above refrigerants based on a least-squares fit to experimental data. This equation is found to provide an improved fit over those existing in the literature up to To = 0.8.