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Measurement of Viscosity of a Binary Mixture of R1123 + R32 Refrigerant by Tandem Capillary Tube Method

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A refrigerant mixture of R1123 + R32 is expected to be an alternative working fluid for refrigeration systems, organic Rankine cycle and heat pumps due to its lower global warming potential and transport properties. The goals of this work are to measure the viscosity of the liquid and vapor phases of this mixture refrigerant. Consequently, the viscosity of mixture refrigerant was measured by the tandem capillary tube method up to 4.5 MPa over a temperature range from 250.64 K to 312.61 K for the liquid phase and from 323.35 K to 382.88 K in the vapor phase, respectively. Mass fractions of measured R1123/R32 refrigerant mixture were 0.428/0.572 in the liquid phase and 0.425/0.575 in the vapor phase. The obtained experimental data were compared with estimated values of the ECS model, and the average absolute deviation (AAD) was found at 3.63 % in the liquid phase and 2.45 % of the vapor phase. Also, the measured liquid and vapor viscosity data were correlated with the Grunberg–Nissan method and Wilke mixture correlation, respectively, while the AAD was 1.33 % for liquid and 3.69 % for vapor phases. The total combined standard uncertainties in the liquid and vapor viscosity measurements were estimated to be less than 2.9 % and 3.0 %, respectively.

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Abbreviations

L :

Length of the capillary tube (m)

M :

Molecular weight (kg·mol−1)

m :

Mass fraction of each component

P :

Pressure (MPa)

ΔP :

Pressure difference (MPa)

q :

Volumetric flow rate (m3·s−1)

r :

Radius of the capillary tube (m)

T :

Temperature (K)

u :

Standard uncertainty

u c :

Combined uncertainty

X, Y :

Quantity used in Eq. 2

Z :

Interaction coefficient used in Eqs. 4 and 5

η :

Viscosity (μ·Pa·s)

ρ :

Density of the fluid (kg·m−3)

ϕ :

Sutherland coefficient

cal :

Calculated

exp :

Experimental

l :

Long capillary tube

mix :

Mixture

s :

Short capillary tube

1, 2 :

Pure components 1 and 2

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This study was sponsored by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, and was supported by AGC Inc. for providing the samples.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan

    Dipayan Mondal & Yoshiya Hori

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan

    Keishi Kariya & Akio Miyara

  3. International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819-0385, Japan

    Akio Miyara

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, 9203, Bangladesh

    Dipayan Mondal

  5. Department of Chemical Engineering, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, 7408, Bangladesh

    Md. Jahangir Alam

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Mondal, D., Hori, Y., Kariya, K. et al. Measurement of Viscosity of a Binary Mixture of R1123 + R32 Refrigerant by Tandem Capillary Tube Method. Int J Thermophys 41, 83 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-020-02653-4

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