Determination and correlation of infinite dilution binary diffusion coefficients for aluminum acetylacetonate in supercritical and liquid fluids

Abstract

The infinite dilution binary diffusion coefficients D12 for aluminum acetylacetonate in supercritical CO2 were determined at 308.15–333.15 K and at 7.80–40.00 MPa by the chromatographic impulse response (CIR) method. And, the diffusion measurements in liquid ethanol were carried out at 300.15–333.15 K and at 0.10 and 30.00 MPa by the Taylor dispersion method. It was found that the D12 values measured in supercritical CO2 show slowing down in the region of near critical point. The determined activation energies of diffusion were 23.0, 13.7, 12.0, 11.3 kJ/mol at 12.00, 20.00, 25.00, 35.00 MPa in supercritical CO2 and 19.1 kJ/mol at 0.10 MPa in liquid ethanol, respectively. All determined 90 diffusion data in this study can be correlated with the equation of D12 [m2/s] = 1.558 × 10−14 T [K] η [Pa s]−0.761 with average absolute relative deviation (AARD) of 5.6% over a wide fluid viscosity range from 2.462 × 10−5 to 1.258 × 10−3 Pa s.