INTERNAL-PRESSURE, ULTRASONIC VELOCITY AND VISCOSITY OF MULTICOMPONENT LIQUID-SYSTEMS

Ultrasonic velocity, density and viscosity were measured in two ternary liquid systems namely, n-pentane + n-hexane + benzene(I) and n-hexane + cyclohexane + benzene (II) and one quaternary liquid system, n-pentane + n-hexane + benzene + toluene (III). The experimental as well as literature values of thermal expansion coefficient and iso-thermal compressibility of pure liquid components were utilized to deduce the ideal value of internal pressure and excess internal pressure for the above liquid systems at 298.15 K using two different approaches. In the conventional approach one needs the experimental values of alpha and beta(T) of mixtures for computing internal pressure, which was not possible. The second method which is proposed here utilizes only the density, ultrasonic velocity and viscosity data of the mixture. This method is used in computing internal pressure and its excess value for multicomponent liquid systems. A satisfactory agreement has been observed.