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Experimental Investigation on Thermal Diffusion in Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures

S. A. Mousavi¹, T. Yousefi², Z. Saghir³

1 Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
2 Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
3 Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing 2017, 13(4), 213-220. https://doi.org/10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.213

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to investigate the thermal diffusion in ternary hydrocarbon mixtures composed of 1, 2, 3, 4 Tetrahydronaphtalene (THN)-Isobutylbenzene (IBB)-Dodecane (C12) with mass fractions of 80/10/10, 70/10/20, and 60/10/30 at mean temperature of 25 °C. Optical interferometry technique with Mach-Zehnder arrangement was used to conduct the experiments. The mixture was placed in a convectionless cell which was heated from above. The results for the mixture with mass fraction of 80/10/10 were in a good agreement with the corresponding benchmark values. Finally, the Soret coefficient for the other two mixtures have been proposed.

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