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As part of a continuing program investigating the thermal conductivity of important industrial fluids, measurements were made on methane in the liquid and dense gaseous states. An absolute transient hot-wire apparatus [1] was used to obtain convection-free measurements at temperatures between 120 and 400 K at pressures from 25 to 700 bar. The maximum uncertainty in the results due to systematic and random errors in the apparatus and the measurement techniques was less than 1%. A gas-chromatographic analysis of methane samples revealed 99.33% methane, 0.56% nitrogen, 0.11% ethane, and traces of propane.
Work supported by the National Research Council of Canada under Grant No. A-2788.
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Mani, N., Venart, J.E.S. (1973). Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Liquid and Dense Gaseous Methane. In: Timmerhaus, K.D. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3111-7_32
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