Abstract
A new apparatus has been designed and constructed in order to obtain reliable solubility data of refrigerants in refrigeration oils and was used to measure the solubilities of dichlorodifluoromethane (R12) into a naphthenic refrigeration oil and squalane C30H62, a model substance of lubricating oil with definite chemical structure and molecular weight, in the temperaturer range from 293 to 323 K under pressure up to 1.2 MPa. The uncertainty of the solubility data obtained is less than 1 %. The equilibrium pressure increases smoothly with increasing R12 composition up to saturated vapor pressure of R12 in both (R12 + naphthenic refrigeration oil) and (R12 + squalane) systems. The experimental data for (R 12 + naphthenic refrigeration oil) system were compared with literature vaJues. It was found the present results agreed quite well with literature values. For (R12 + squalane) system the activity coefficients of R 12 in liquid phase were calculated from the solubility data and the equation of state of R 12. The activity coefficients were correlated with the composition of liquid phase based on the Margules equation. The correlating equation obtained can reproduce the experimental data with a mean deviation of 2.3 %.
