Description of the liquid-vapor phase equilibrium line of pure substances within the bounds of scale theory based on the Clapeyron equation

Abstract

Abstract On the basis of the Clapeyron equation and the scale theory, expressions are developed for the “apparent” heat of vaporization r * = r * (T), vapor ρ- = ρ- (T) and liquid ρ+ = ρ+ (T) branches of the saturation line of individual substances for the range of state parameters from the triple point (pt,Tt,ρt ) to the critical (pc,Tc,ρc ). The peculiarity of the proposed approach to the description of the saturation line is that all exponents of the components of the equations ρ- = ρ- (T) and ρ+ = ρ+ (T) are universal up to the universality of the critical indices α, β and Δ. In this case, the order parameter ds = (ρ+ − ρ-)/(2ρc) and the average diameter df = (ρ+ + ρ-)/(2ρc) − 1 of the saturation line satisfy the saturation line model [2β,1−α], which follows from the modern theory of critical phenomena. The method is tested on the example of describing the phase equilibrium line of refrigerant R1233zd(E) in the range from Tt = 195.15 K to Tc = 439.57 K. It is found that in the temperature range [Tt,Tc ], the developed system of the mutually consistent equations ps = ps (T), r * = r * (T), ρ- = ρ- (T) and ρ+ = ρ+ (T) allows describing the data on the saturated vapor pressure ps and densities ρ- and ρ+ on the saturation line within the experimental uncertainty of these data.