The Line of Ideal Isothermal Compressibility

Abstract

We have considered the line along which the values of the isothermal compressibility of a system are the same as they would be for an ideal gas. It was called the κ T line. Various substances and models have been studied with the use of the multi-parameter equations of states, implemented in REFPROP (Lemmon, E. W.; Bell, I. H.; Huber, M. L.; McLinden, M. O. NIST standard reference database 23: Reference fluid thermodynamic and transport properties-REFPROP, version 10.0 (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2018)), and numerical simulations, respectively. It is shown that in the reduced variables, all κ T lines can be described by the same relation following from the van der Waals equation. This similarity appears to be valid even for the systems with non-straight Zeno lines. Deviations within ∼5% are observed only near the binodals.