The tables of Pitzer et al. for the compressibility factor of nonpolar substances have been extended to polar fluids for the gaseous and liquid regions for reduced temperatures from 0.8 to 1.15 and reduced pressures from 0.2 to 6.0. Available experimental PVT data for polar fluids were related to the acentric factor and fourth parameter at constant reduced temperature and pressure by a quadratic least squares procedure. The resulting relationships reproduced the data utilized with good accuracy for the entire region considered.
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CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCEThe compressibility factor of polar fluids has been expressed aswhere the parameters w and x are defined through the vapor pressure, and z ( 0 ) and dl) have been previously determined for nonpolar fluids. In this study, values of the polar fluid correction terms zC2), z C 3 ) , and z (~) were established for the gaseous and liquid regions for reduced temperatures from 0.8 to 1.15 and reduced pressures from 0.2 to 6.0. Available experimental PVT data for polar fluids were related to w and x at constant TR and P R by a qua-(1) dratic least squares procedure. Fine grid values of the functions were determined for P R from 1.0 to 2.0 and TR from 0.98 to 1.10.In general, the tabulated functions reproduce the experimental compressibility factors utilized with an accuracy comparable to that obtained by this procedure for nonpolar fluids. Additional PVT data for acetone at elevated pressures in the gaseous and liquid regions were also compared with the values calculated by the method of this study, and an average deviation of under 1.0% resulted. The method of this study enables the accurate calculation of compressibility factors for polar fluids with ranges of parameters 0 < w < 0.65 and -0.06 < x < 0.04.For dilute polar gases, Hall and Ibele (1954) presented a correlation for the compressibility factor in which the reduced dipole group p2/Tcvc is the third parameter. Eubank and Smith (1962) extended the correlations of Pitzer et al. (1955) for nonpolar fluids to the thermodynamic properties of dilute polar gases by the use of a fourth parameter involving the reduced dipole group. This approach requires a value of the shape parameter for an appropriate nonpolar substance having the same size as the polar fluid and is primarily restricted to organic substances.For an intermolecular potential model for polar fluids consisting of the Kihara spherical core potential extended with a term for dipole-dipole interactions, the compressibility factor can be expressed in dimensionless form as