Saturated Heat Capacities of Some Linear and Branched Alkylbenzenes between (332 and 401) K

Abstract

The saturated heat capacities of some linear alkylbenzenes (ethylbenzene, propylbenzene, butylbenzene, hexylbenzene, 1-phenylheptane, and 1-phenylhexadecane) and branched alkylbenzenes (m-xylene, cumene, (1-methylpropyl)benzene, (1,1-dimethylethyl)benzene, and (2-methylpropyl)benzene) in the temperature range from (332.15 to 401.15) K have been measured. A Calvet calorimeter C80D from Setaram (France) with batch cells modified from the standard vessels of Setaram, along with the “step by step method”, has been used to perform the measurements. The estimated uncertainty of the saturated heat capacities was better than 0.5 % for the substances with higher purity and of the order of 1 % for the others. In the literature there exists csat(T) data for some of the liquids studied. Agreement with our measurements is within the range of the experimental uncertainties.