Transport in Porous Media, Vol.52, No.2, 123-140, 2003
Phase Behavior of methane-pentane mixture in bulk and in porous media
The adiabatic calorimetry method is used to measure the isochoric heat capacity and the dew-bubble curves for the methane-normal pentane mixtures in bulk for three different mixture compositions of n-pentane. The near-critical behavior of the mixture heat capacity indicates that at low n-pentane concentrations, this system is close to the special point of the critical locus. The effect of porous medium has been investigated for one of the mixtures studied in bulk. It has been shown that in porous medium the essential shift of the dew-bubble curve takes place. In our opinion this shift is caused by the formation of wetting film on the surface of porous medium. The estimation of film thickness resulting from the data obtained yields the value 7-8 nm.
Keywords:critical point;scaling theory;binary mixture;dew-bubble curve;adiabatic calorimeter;quartz powder