The speeds of sound in 1-butanol + ethyl laurate binary
mixtures
determine the injection time and combustion characteristics of diesel
engine. The speed of sound of 1-butanol + ethyl laurate binary mixture
system was measured by the Rayleigh–Brillouin light scattering
method at temperatures from 293 to 520 K and pressures from 0.1 to
7.5 MPa. A set of parameters was fitted using 1-butanol and ethyl
laurate experiment data for the volume-translated Peng–Robinson
(VTPR-BE) equation of state (EoS), taking into account the temperature
influence on the binary interaction parameter k
ij
. Increasing the order of the temperature
function of k
ij
can reduce
the calculation deviation of the VTPR-BE EoS. However, beyond the
second-order term, further increases in order do not yield significant
improvements in accuracy. By adopting the second-order k
ij
form, the density and the speed of
sound of 1-butanol + ethyl laurate binary mixture system were calculated
using the VTPR-BE EoS. The average absolute relative deviation is
1.05% for density and 3.90% for the speed of sound. Especially, when
the molar fraction of 1-butanol is 0.5, the absolute relative deviation
of the speed of sound is 1.79%.