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Thermophysical Properties of High-Temperature Reacting Mixtures of Carbon and Water in the Range 400–30,000 K and 0.1–10 atm. Part 1: Equilibrium Composition and Thermodynamic Properties

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This paper is devoted to the calculation of the chemical equilibrium composition and thermodynamic properties of reacting mixtures of carbon and water at high temperature. Equilibrium particle concentrations and thermodynamic properties including mass density, molar weight, entropy, enthalpy and specific heat at constant pressure, sonic velocity, and heat capacity ratio are determined by the method of Gibbs free energy minimization, using species data from standard thermodynamic tables. The calculations, which assume local thermodynamic equilibrium, are performed in the temperature range from 400 to 30,000 K for pressures of 0.10, 1.0, 3.0, 5.0 and 10.0 atm. The properties of the reacting mixture are affected by the possible occurrence of solid carbon formation at low temperature, and therefore attention is paid to the influence of the carbon phase transition by comparing the results obtained with and without considering solid carbon formation. The results presented here clarify some basic chemical process and are reliable reference data for use in the simulation of plasmas in reacting carbon and water mixtures together with the need of transport coefficients computation.

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This work was supported by the Chinese Government Scholarship program for postgraduates and Dual Collaborative PhD Degree Program between Xi’an Jiaotong University and University of Liverpool.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Zong Wang & Ming Zhe Rong

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, The University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GJ, UK

    Wei Zong Wang, J. D. Yan, J. W. Spencer & M. T. C. Fang

  3. CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, PO Box 218, Lindfield, NSW, 2070, Australia

    A. B. Murphy

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Wang, W.Z., Murphy, A.B., Yan, J.D. et al. Thermophysical Properties of High-Temperature Reacting Mixtures of Carbon and Water in the Range 400–30,000 K and 0.1–10 atm. Part 1: Equilibrium Composition and Thermodynamic Properties. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 32, 75–96 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-011-9327-y

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