Thermophysical Properties of Gaseous CF4 and C2F6 from Speed-of-Sound Measurements

A cylindrical resonator was employed to measure the sound speeds in gaseous CF4 and C2F6. The CF4 measurements span the temperature range 300 to 475 K, while the C2F6 measurements range from 210 to 475 K. For both gases, the pressure range was 0.1 MPa to the lesser of 1.5 MPa or 80% of the sample’s vapor pressure. Typically, the speeds of sound have a relative uncertainty of less than 0.01 % and the ideal-gas heat capacities derived from them have a relative uncertainty of less than 0.1%. The heat capacities agree with those determined from spectroscopic data. The sound speeds were fitted with the virial equation of state to obtain the temperature-dependent density virial coefficients. Two models for the virial coefficients were employed, one based on square-well potentials and the second based on a Kihara spherical-core potential. The resulting virial equations reproduce the sound-speed measurements to within 0.005 % and yield densities with relative uncertainties of 0.1% or less. The viscosity calculated from the Kihara potential is 2 to 11% less than the measured viscosity.

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