The
thermal conductivity of compressed liquids has received less
attention in prediction models compared with saturated liquids. This
work proposes a new thermal conductivity prediction model for alkanes,
alkenes, and halogenated hydrocarbons for saturated and compressed
liquids. The model based on dimensional analysis was developed for n-alkanes. The critical temperature, critical density, molecular
weight, reduced temperature, reduced density, and acentric factor
of each fluid are required. Introducing the reduced density effectively
implements the thermal conductivity calculation of the compressed
liquid. Then, the particle density was found to affect the thermal
conductivity of halogenated and isomeric hydrocarbons compared with
normal hydrocarbons. Hence, a model with a correction term related
to the particle density was developed for halogenated and isomeric
hydrocarbons. Good agreements between the calculated results and experimental
data for n-alkanes and halogenated (or isomeric)
hydrocarbons were obtained with average absolute relative deviation
values of 1.74% and 3.03%, respectively.