Thermophysical Properties of Chlorine from Speed-of-Sound Measurements

Abstract

The speed of sound was measured in gaseous chlorine using a highly precise acoustic resonance technique. The data span the temperature range 260 to 440 K and the pressure range 100 kPa to the lesser of 1500 kPa or 80% of the sample's vapor pressure. A small correction (0.003 to 0.06%) to the observed resonance frequencies was required to account for dispersion caused by the vibrational relaxation of chlorine. The speed-of-sound measurements have a relative standard uncertainty of 0.01%. The data were analyzed to obtain the ideal-gas heat capacity as a function of the temperature with a relative standard uncertainty of 0.1%. The reported values of C ^o _p are in agreement with those determined from spectroscopic data. The speed-of-sound data were fitted by virial equations of state to obtain the temperature dependent density virial coefficients. Two virial coefficient models were employed, one based on square-well intermolecular potentials and the second based on a hard-core Lennard–Jones intermolecular potential. The resulting virial equations reproduced the sound speed data to within 0.01% and may be used to calculate vapor densities with relative standard uncertainties of 0.1% or less.