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On the Interpretation of Near-Critical Gas–Liquid Heat Capacities by L. V. Woodcock, Int. J. Thermophys. (2017) 38, 139: Comments

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It is shown that: (1) the expressions for the isochoric (CV) and isobaric (CP) heat capacities of liquid and gas, coexisting in phase equilibrium, the heat capacities at saturation of liquid and gas (Cσ) and the heat capacity Cλ used in the article “On the Interpretation of Near-Critical Gas–Liquid Heat Capacities, L. V. Woodcock, Int. J. Thermophys. (2017) 38, 139” are incorrect; (2) the conclusions of the article based on the comparison of the incorrect CV, CP and Cλ with experimental data are also incorrect; (3) the lever rule cannot be used to define CV and CP in the two-phase coexistence region; (4) a correct expression for the isochoric heat capacity describes well the experimental data; (5) there is no misinterpretation of near-critical gas–liquid heat capacity measurements in the two-phase coexistence region; (6) there are no proofs in the article that: (a) the divergence of CV is apparent; (b) it has not been established experimentally that the thermodynamic properties of fluids satisfy scaling laws with universal critical exponents asymptotically close to a single critical point of the vapor–liquid phase transition; and (c) there is no singular critical point on Gibbs density surface. We obtained the relations connecting the isochoric heat capacity in the two-phase region with thermodynamic properties at saturation of homogeneous liquid and gas which can be used to verify the equation of state.

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Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Prof. Leslie V. Woodcock, University of Algarve, Portugal, for providing the original isochoric heat capacity dataset of NASA microgravity experiment for SF6 [4].

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Umirzakov, I.H. On the Interpretation of Near-Critical Gas–Liquid Heat Capacities by L. V. Woodcock, Int. J. Thermophys. (2017) 38, 139: Comments. Int J Thermophys 39, 91 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-018-2414-z

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