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A New Transient Two-Wire Method for Measuring the Thermal Diffusivity of Electrically Conducting and Highly Corrosive Liquids Using Small Samples

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The transient hot-wire (THW) technique is widely used for measurements of the thermal conductivity of most fluids, and some attempts have also been carried out for simultaneous measurements of the thermal diffusivity with the same hot wire. However, for some particular liquids like concentrated nitric acid solutions or similar nitric mixtures, for which the thermal properties are important for industrial or security applications, this technique may be difficult to use, because of possible technological incompatibilities between measurement probe materials and highly electrically conducting and corrosive liquids. Moreover, the possible highly energetic (explosive) character of these liquids requires minimum volume liquid samples and safety measurement devices and processes. It is the purpose of this paper to report on a modified THW technique (previously used for thermal-diffusivity measurements in soils), which is associated with a specific patented double-wire probe and is shown to be valid for direct thermal-diffusivity measurements in liquids. This method responds to the previous requirements and allows automatic and quasi-simultaneous thermal-conductivity and thermal-diffusivity measurements to be made safely on liquids compatible with the tantalum technology, with liquid sample volumes < 2 cm3. Low uncertainties are found for the thermal-diffusivity data when relative measurements are carried out with reference liquids like water or toluene.

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    A. Kadjo, J.-P Garnier, J. P. Maye & S. Martemianov

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Kadjo, A., Garnier, JP., Maye, J.P. et al. A New Transient Two-Wire Method for Measuring the Thermal Diffusivity of Electrically Conducting and Highly Corrosive Liquids Using Small Samples. Int J Thermophys 29, 1267–1277 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-008-0472-3

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