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Papers by Gholamabbas Parsafar
International Journal of Thermophysics, 2004
A variational theory (VT), in which the potential energy of a real system is evaluated relative t... more A variational theory (VT), in which the potential energy of a real system is evaluated relative to the hard-sphere system, has been used to investigate the medium's effects on the pair potential parameters. By adding the medium's effects to the isolated pair potential, the concept of an ''effective pair potential'' (EPP) has been introduced. The advantage of such a potential (EPP) over the isolated pair potential is that the configurational energy can exactly be written as the sum of all EPP of all pairs available in the system. The parameters of such a pair potential will then show state dependence. The EPP parameters for different dense fluids at various temperatures have been obtained via the VT, and they have been shown to be density independent for densities greater than the Boyle density, r B 4 1.8r c , (where r c is the critical density), while at lower densities the parameters depend on density as well as temperature. For any dense fluid, the depth of the EPP, e,is found to be larger than its corresponding isolated pair. When the EPP parameters are used to reduce temperature and density, the cutoff parameter, C=d/s depends only on the reduced density, and this parameter shows a strong principle of corresponding states for different fluids. The resulting expression for the cutoff parameter has then been used to accurately predict the internal energy. Finally, the EPP parameters are compared with those of the average effective pair potential (AEPP) for Ar, to show the importance of the medium effects and the long-range interactions of the AEPP in dense fluids, individually. This comparison shows that the depth parameter of the AEPP is much larger than that of the EPP. Since the long-range interactions are mainly attractive, such a conclusion is reasonable.
Eprint Arxiv Cond Mat 0406665, Jun 1, 2004
A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-... more A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-state Potts ferromagnets, on strips of width r sites of square and triangular lattices. This size reduction has been set up in such a way that the maximum eigenvalues of both the reduced and original transfer matrices became exactly the same. In this method we write the original transfer matrix in a special blocked form in such a way that the sums of row elements of a block of the original transfer matrix be the same. The reduced matrix is obtained by replacing each block of the original transfer matrix with the sum of the elements of one of its rows. Our method results in significant matrix size reduction which is a crucial factor in determining the maximum eigenvalue.
Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Dec 1, 2002
A new correlation function for the calculation of viscosity for five typical supercritical gases ... more A new correlation function for the calculation of viscosity for five typical supercritical gases is presented using the Rainwater-Friend and modified Enskog theories. It is shown that by using accurate values for the thermal pressure and co-volume in the modified Enskog ...
Molecular Physics, Dec 4, 2010
Molecular dynamics, MD, simulation of calcite (CaCO3) is selected to compare the pvT behaviour of... more Molecular dynamics, MD, simulation of calcite (CaCO3) is selected to compare the pvT behaviour of some universal equations of state, UEOS, for the temperature range 100 K≤ T≤ 800 K, and pressures up to 3000 kbar. The isothermal sets of pvT data generated by ...
Biophysical Chemistry, May 31, 2008
Theoretical calculations of structural parameters, 57 Fe, 14 N and 17 O electric field gradient (... more Theoretical calculations of structural parameters, 57 Fe, 14 N and 17 O electric field gradient (EFG) tensors for full size-hemin group have been carried out using density functional theory. These calculations are intended to shed light on the difference between the geometry parameters, nuclear quadrupole coupling constants (QCC), and asymmetry parameters (η Q ) found in three spin states of hemin; doublet, quartet and sextet. The optimization results reveal a significant change for propionic groups and porphyrin plane in different spin states. It is found that all principal components of EFG tensor at the iron site are sensitive to electronic and geometry structures. A relationship between the EFG tensor at the 14 N and 17 O sites and the spin state of hemin complex is also detected.
Int J Thermophys, 1999
In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using onl... more In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using only p v-T data. We have also shown a linear relationship between compressibility factor and pressure for each branch of the inversion curve. These lines can be used to find the maximum inversion pressure, P in . Finally, we have predicted the temperature at which the Joule-Thomson coefficient, m J-T , Has its maximum value for each isobar, by using the specific heat capacity, isobaric expansivity, or compressibility factor.
Eprint Arxiv Physics 0406135, Jun 1, 2004
A new graphical method is developed to calculate the critical temperature of 2- and 3-dimensional... more A new graphical method is developed to calculate the critical temperature of 2- and 3-dimensional Ising models as well as that of the 2-dimensional Potts models. This method is based on the transfer matrix method and using the limited lattice for the calculation. The reduced internal energy per site has been accurately calculated for different 2-D Ising and Potts models using different size-limited lattices. All calculated energies intersect at a single point when plotted versus the reduced temperature. The reduced temperature at the intersection is 0.4407, 0.2746, and 0.6585 for the square, triangular, and honeycombs Ising lattices and 1.0050, 0.6309, and 1.4848 for the square, triangular, and honeycombs Potts lattices, respectively. These values are exactly the same as the critical temperatures reported in the literature, except for the honeycomb Potts lattice. For the two-dimensional Ising model, we have shown that the existence of such an intersection point is due to the duality relation. The method is then extended to the simple cubic Ising model, in which the intersection point is found to be dependent on the lattice sizes. We have found a linear relation between the lattice size and the intersection point. This relation is used to obtain the critical temperature of the unlimited simple cubic lattice. The obtained result, 0.221(2), is in a good agreement with the accurate value of 0.22165 reported by others.
A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-... more A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-state Potts fe rromagnets, on strips of width r sites of square and triangular lattices. This size reduction has been set up in such a way that the maximum eigenvalues of both the reduced and original transfer matrices became exactly the same. In
The interaction potential energy among particles in many systems is of the form of r^-(alpha), at... more The interaction potential energy among particles in many systems is of the form of r^-(alpha), at least at long distances. It has been argued that, in systems for which (alpha) < d (d is the space dimension) we encounter with nonextensive (nonintensive) thermodynamic functions. A scaling parameter N~ has been introduced to make nonextensive (nonintensive) thermodynamic functions of such systems extensive (intensive) functions. Our simulation results show that this parameter is not capable of making thermodynamic functions of a nanosystem extensive (intensive). Here we have presented a theoretical justification for the ability of such scaling parameter, and then we have generalized this scaling parameter to be capable of making nonextensive (nonintensive) thermodynamic functions of nanosystems extensive (intensive). This parameter is proportional to the potential energy per particle at zero temperature.
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In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using onl... more In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using only p v-T data. We have also shown a linear relationship between compressibility factor and pressure for each branch of the inversion curve. These lines can be used to find the maximum inversion pressure, P in . Finally, we have predicted the temperature at which the Joule-Thomson coefficient, m J-T , Has its maximum value for each isobar, by using the specific heat capacity, isobaric expansivity, or compressibility factor.
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ABSTRACT The concept of effective pair potential (EPP), in which medium effects and contribution ... more ABSTRACT The concept of effective pair potential (EPP), in which medium effects and contribution of long-range interactions are added to near-neighbor pair interactions, is a useful tool to derive and calculate the thermodynamic quantities. It has been shown that the extended Lennard-Jones (12, 6, 3) potential is an accurate EPP for many systems. However, the parameters of this EPP are not known for any systems. We introduce a new approach to use experimental pvT data of a fluid to calculate its EPP parameters. Such calculation has been carried out for some fluids at some temperatures. Unlike the isolated pair potential, it has been shown that the parameters significantly vary with temperature. We have found that the potential well of the EPP for a fluid is larger than that of its isolated pair potential at all temperatures.
Solid State Communications, Feb 1, 2010
Metallic nanoparticles are interesting because of their use in catalysis and sensors. The surface... more Metallic nanoparticles are interesting because of their use in catalysis and sensors. The surface energy of the FCC platinum nanoparticles are investigated via molecular dynamics simulation using Quantum Sutton-Chen (QSC) potential. We have calculated the Gibbs free energy for the FCC platinum bulk and also for its nanoparticle. All calculations have been carried out at zero pressure. We have used the thermodynamic integration method to obtain the Gibbs free energy. The total Gibbs free energy is taken as the sum of its central bulk and its surface free energy. We have calculated the free energy of a platinum nanoparticle as a function of temperature.
Fluid Phase Equilibria, Mar 1, 2008
We have derived an analytical equation of state (EOS) based on the soft-core statistical mechanic... more We have derived an analytical equation of state (EOS) based on the soft-core statistical mechanical perturbation theory for fluids, using the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) theory recently developed by Ben-Amotz-Stell (BAS) for the choice of the hard-sphere diameter, but with a new algorithm for calculation of the pair and many-body interactions. We have used Carnahan-Starling expression with the Boltzmann factor criterion (BFC) as an effective hard-sphere diameter for the reference system, and also decomposed the perturbed pair potential to symmetric and asymmetric terms. The former term is due to the many-body interactions at high densities as was used in the linear isotherm regularity known as LIR EOS, and the latter term supports the interaction of two isolated particles that is dominating at low densities. The resulting EOS is obtained as Z = Z cs + αρ + Aρ 3 + Bρ 5 , in which Z cs is the Carnahan-Starling expression for the compressibility factor of the reference system which contains the effective van der Waals co-volume, and α is due to the asymmetric interaction term, or the attraction contribution of the second virial coefficient. The A and B parameters are the attractive and repulsive contributions of symmetric term, respectively. The temperature-dependencies of all parameters of the EOS are obtained. We select some different fluids, namely Ar, N 2 , CH 4 , Ne, CO 2 , C 2 H 6 , C 3 H 8 , NH 3 and H 2 O which are spherical, roughly spherical, non-spherical, polar and associated fluids, due to their abundance of P-V-T experimental data. We have found that, except for the critical region, 0.8 < ρ r ≤ 1.5, 1 ≤ T r ≤ 1.5, the new EOS is accurate for all temperatures and densities available in the literatures, in such a way that the average percent deviation of density for Ar, Ne, N 2 , CH 4 , CO 2 , C 2 H 6 , C 3 H 8 , and NH 3 is less than 2.81%. Then some thermodynamic properties including vapor-pressure curve, Joule-Thomson inversion curve, P-T isochors curves, and the second virial coefficient have been applied to check the accuracy of the new EOS. Results for some isochors of argon show that the new EOS gives a small negative curvature for all isochors. The new EOS prediction of the inversion Joule-Thomson curve is reasonable, and its prediction of Clausius-Clapeyron diagram for neon and argon is very accurate, but small deviation for methane and nitrogen can be seen.
Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nov 7, 2014
Fluid Phase Equilibria, Dec 1, 2007
Using the newly introduced asymptotic expansion method to obtain equations of state for hard sphe... more Using the newly introduced asymptotic expansion method to obtain equations of state for hard sphere fluid, new simple equations of state for hard disks based on known virial coefficients are derived. Comparison of the obtained equations of state with computer simulation data shows that they are accurate in the whole fluid region.
Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jun 1, 2001
A new model for the vapor phase of a pressurized liquid called&quot; the cluster model&am... more A new model for the vapor phase of a pressurized liquid called&quot; the cluster model&quot;, which is originally introduced in this work along with an accurate equation of state for the liquid phase called the LIR is used to derive an accurate equation for the vapor pressure of ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00268970601082887, Feb 16, 2007
ABSTRACT
Iranian Journal of Chemistry Chemical Engineering International English Edition, Jan 19, 2011
In this paper the density and temperature dependencies of surface tension are investigated. Using... more In this paper the density and temperature dependencies of surface tension are investigated. Using the Lennard-Jones (12,6), as an effective pair interaction potential, a linear expression is derived for isotherms of γ /ρ 2 versus ρ 2 for some normal and ChloroFluoroCarbons (CFCs) fluids, where is surface tension and ρ = 1/v is molar density. The linearity behavior of the derived equation is well fitted onto the experimental data of surface tension for monatomic, diatomic, nonpolar, polar, hydrogen-bonded and chlorofluorocarbons. In addition, the temperature dependence of surface tension for 20 different fluids is examined, in which the contributions of both terms of the average effective pair potential to the γ are determined. For all liquids investigated in this work, surface tension increases with density except for water. The surface tension of water for isotherms within 280-300 K decreases with density, whereas increases within the range of 310-320 K.
In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using onl... more In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using only p v-T data. We have also shown a linear relationship between compressibility factor and pressure for each branch of the inversion curve. These lines can be used to find the maximum inversion pressure, P in . Finally, we have predicted the temperature at which the Joule-Thomson coefficient, m J-T , Has its maximum value for each isobar, by using the specific heat capacity, isobaric expansivity, or compressibility factor.
J Phys Chem a, 2005
The hydrogen abstraction reaction of the OH radical with CH 3 CHF 2 (HFC152-a) has been studied t... more The hydrogen abstraction reaction of the OH radical with CH 3 CHF 2 (HFC152-a) has been studied theoretically over a wide temperature range, 200-3000 K. Two different reactive sites of the molecule, CH 3 and CHF 2 groups have been investigated precisely, and results confirm that CHF 2 position of the molecule is a highly reactive site. In this study, three recently developed hybrid density functional theories, namely, MPWB1K, MPW1B95, and MPW1K, are used. The MPWB1K/6-31+G(d,p) method gives the best result for kinetic calculations, including barrier heights, reaction path information and geometry of transition state structures and other stationary points. To refine the barrier height of each channel, a single point energy calculation was performed in MPWB1K/MG3S method. The obtained rate constants by dual level direct dynamics with the interpolated single point energy method (VTST-ISPE) using DFT quantum computational methods, are consistent with available experimental data. The canonical variational transition state theory (CVT) with the zero-curvature and also the small-curvature tunneling correction methods is used to calculate the rate constants. Over the temperature range 200-3000 K, the variation effect, tunneling contribution, branching ratio of each channel are calculated. The rate constants and their temperature dependency in the form of a fitted threeparameter Arrhenius expression are k 1 (T) ) 2.00 × 10 -19 (T) 2.24 exp(-1273/T), k 2 (T) ) 1.95 × 10 -19 (T) 2.46 exp(-2374/T), and k(T) ) 3.13 × 10 -19 (T) 2.47 exp(-1694/T) cm 3 molecule -1 s -1 . For the H abstraction from the CHF 2 group, a nonclassical reflection effect is detected as a dominant quantum effect.
International Journal of Thermophysics, 2004
A variational theory (VT), in which the potential energy of a real system is evaluated relative t... more A variational theory (VT), in which the potential energy of a real system is evaluated relative to the hard-sphere system, has been used to investigate the medium's effects on the pair potential parameters. By adding the medium's effects to the isolated pair potential, the concept of an ''effective pair potential'' (EPP) has been introduced. The advantage of such a potential (EPP) over the isolated pair potential is that the configurational energy can exactly be written as the sum of all EPP of all pairs available in the system. The parameters of such a pair potential will then show state dependence. The EPP parameters for different dense fluids at various temperatures have been obtained via the VT, and they have been shown to be density independent for densities greater than the Boyle density, r B 4 1.8r c , (where r c is the critical density), while at lower densities the parameters depend on density as well as temperature. For any dense fluid, the depth of the EPP, e,is found to be larger than its corresponding isolated pair. When the EPP parameters are used to reduce temperature and density, the cutoff parameter, C=d/s depends only on the reduced density, and this parameter shows a strong principle of corresponding states for different fluids. The resulting expression for the cutoff parameter has then been used to accurately predict the internal energy. Finally, the EPP parameters are compared with those of the average effective pair potential (AEPP) for Ar, to show the importance of the medium effects and the long-range interactions of the AEPP in dense fluids, individually. This comparison shows that the depth parameter of the AEPP is much larger than that of the EPP. Since the long-range interactions are mainly attractive, such a conclusion is reasonable.
Eprint Arxiv Cond Mat 0406665, Jun 1, 2004
A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-... more A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-state Potts ferromagnets, on strips of width r sites of square and triangular lattices. This size reduction has been set up in such a way that the maximum eigenvalues of both the reduced and original transfer matrices became exactly the same. In this method we write the original transfer matrix in a special blocked form in such a way that the sums of row elements of a block of the original transfer matrix be the same. The reduced matrix is obtained by replacing each block of the original transfer matrix with the sum of the elements of one of its rows. Our method results in significant matrix size reduction which is a crucial factor in determining the maximum eigenvalue.
Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Dec 1, 2002
A new correlation function for the calculation of viscosity for five typical supercritical gases ... more A new correlation function for the calculation of viscosity for five typical supercritical gases is presented using the Rainwater-Friend and modified Enskog theories. It is shown that by using accurate values for the thermal pressure and co-volume in the modified Enskog ...
Molecular Physics, Dec 4, 2010
Molecular dynamics, MD, simulation of calcite (CaCO3) is selected to compare the pvT behaviour of... more Molecular dynamics, MD, simulation of calcite (CaCO3) is selected to compare the pvT behaviour of some universal equations of state, UEOS, for the temperature range 100 K≤ T≤ 800 K, and pressures up to 3000 kbar. The isothermal sets of pvT data generated by ...
Biophysical Chemistry, May 31, 2008
Theoretical calculations of structural parameters, 57 Fe, 14 N and 17 O electric field gradient (... more Theoretical calculations of structural parameters, 57 Fe, 14 N and 17 O electric field gradient (EFG) tensors for full size-hemin group have been carried out using density functional theory. These calculations are intended to shed light on the difference between the geometry parameters, nuclear quadrupole coupling constants (QCC), and asymmetry parameters (η Q ) found in three spin states of hemin; doublet, quartet and sextet. The optimization results reveal a significant change for propionic groups and porphyrin plane in different spin states. It is found that all principal components of EFG tensor at the iron site are sensitive to electronic and geometry structures. A relationship between the EFG tensor at the 14 N and 17 O sites and the spin state of hemin complex is also detected.
Int J Thermophys, 1999
In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using onl... more In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using only p v-T data. We have also shown a linear relationship between compressibility factor and pressure for each branch of the inversion curve. These lines can be used to find the maximum inversion pressure, P in . Finally, we have predicted the temperature at which the Joule-Thomson coefficient, m J-T , Has its maximum value for each isobar, by using the specific heat capacity, isobaric expansivity, or compressibility factor.
Eprint Arxiv Physics 0406135, Jun 1, 2004
A new graphical method is developed to calculate the critical temperature of 2- and 3-dimensional... more A new graphical method is developed to calculate the critical temperature of 2- and 3-dimensional Ising models as well as that of the 2-dimensional Potts models. This method is based on the transfer matrix method and using the limited lattice for the calculation. The reduced internal energy per site has been accurately calculated for different 2-D Ising and Potts models using different size-limited lattices. All calculated energies intersect at a single point when plotted versus the reduced temperature. The reduced temperature at the intersection is 0.4407, 0.2746, and 0.6585 for the square, triangular, and honeycombs Ising lattices and 1.0050, 0.6309, and 1.4848 for the square, triangular, and honeycombs Potts lattices, respectively. These values are exactly the same as the critical temperatures reported in the literature, except for the honeycomb Potts lattice. For the two-dimensional Ising model, we have shown that the existence of such an intersection point is due to the duality relation. The method is then extended to the simple cubic Ising model, in which the intersection point is found to be dependent on the lattice sizes. We have found a linear relation between the lattice size and the intersection point. This relation is used to obtain the critical temperature of the unlimited simple cubic lattice. The obtained result, 0.221(2), is in a good agreement with the accurate value of 0.22165 reported by others.
A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-... more A new algebraic method is developed to reduce the size of the transfer matrix of Ising and three-state Potts fe rromagnets, on strips of width r sites of square and triangular lattices. This size reduction has been set up in such a way that the maximum eigenvalues of both the reduced and original transfer matrices became exactly the same. In
The interaction potential energy among particles in many systems is of the form of r^-(alpha), at... more The interaction potential energy among particles in many systems is of the form of r^-(alpha), at least at long distances. It has been argued that, in systems for which (alpha) < d (d is the space dimension) we encounter with nonextensive (nonintensive) thermodynamic functions. A scaling parameter N~ has been introduced to make nonextensive (nonintensive) thermodynamic functions of such systems extensive (intensive) functions. Our simulation results show that this parameter is not capable of making thermodynamic functions of a nanosystem extensive (intensive). Here we have presented a theoretical justification for the ability of such scaling parameter, and then we have generalized this scaling parameter to be capable of making nonextensive (nonintensive) thermodynamic functions of nanosystems extensive (intensive). This parameter is proportional to the potential energy per particle at zero temperature.
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In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using onl... more In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using only p v-T data. We have also shown a linear relationship between compressibility factor and pressure for each branch of the inversion curve. These lines can be used to find the maximum inversion pressure, P in . Finally, we have predicted the temperature at which the Joule-Thomson coefficient, m J-T , Has its maximum value for each isobar, by using the specific heat capacity, isobaric expansivity, or compressibility factor.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01411594 2013 804184, Dec 19, 2013
ABSTRACT The concept of effective pair potential (EPP), in which medium effects and contribution ... more ABSTRACT The concept of effective pair potential (EPP), in which medium effects and contribution of long-range interactions are added to near-neighbor pair interactions, is a useful tool to derive and calculate the thermodynamic quantities. It has been shown that the extended Lennard-Jones (12, 6, 3) potential is an accurate EPP for many systems. However, the parameters of this EPP are not known for any systems. We introduce a new approach to use experimental pvT data of a fluid to calculate its EPP parameters. Such calculation has been carried out for some fluids at some temperatures. Unlike the isolated pair potential, it has been shown that the parameters significantly vary with temperature. We have found that the potential well of the EPP for a fluid is larger than that of its isolated pair potential at all temperatures.
Solid State Communications, Feb 1, 2010
Metallic nanoparticles are interesting because of their use in catalysis and sensors. The surface... more Metallic nanoparticles are interesting because of their use in catalysis and sensors. The surface energy of the FCC platinum nanoparticles are investigated via molecular dynamics simulation using Quantum Sutton-Chen (QSC) potential. We have calculated the Gibbs free energy for the FCC platinum bulk and also for its nanoparticle. All calculations have been carried out at zero pressure. We have used the thermodynamic integration method to obtain the Gibbs free energy. The total Gibbs free energy is taken as the sum of its central bulk and its surface free energy. We have calculated the free energy of a platinum nanoparticle as a function of temperature.
Fluid Phase Equilibria, Mar 1, 2008
We have derived an analytical equation of state (EOS) based on the soft-core statistical mechanic... more We have derived an analytical equation of state (EOS) based on the soft-core statistical mechanical perturbation theory for fluids, using the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) theory recently developed by Ben-Amotz-Stell (BAS) for the choice of the hard-sphere diameter, but with a new algorithm for calculation of the pair and many-body interactions. We have used Carnahan-Starling expression with the Boltzmann factor criterion (BFC) as an effective hard-sphere diameter for the reference system, and also decomposed the perturbed pair potential to symmetric and asymmetric terms. The former term is due to the many-body interactions at high densities as was used in the linear isotherm regularity known as LIR EOS, and the latter term supports the interaction of two isolated particles that is dominating at low densities. The resulting EOS is obtained as Z = Z cs + αρ + Aρ 3 + Bρ 5 , in which Z cs is the Carnahan-Starling expression for the compressibility factor of the reference system which contains the effective van der Waals co-volume, and α is due to the asymmetric interaction term, or the attraction contribution of the second virial coefficient. The A and B parameters are the attractive and repulsive contributions of symmetric term, respectively. The temperature-dependencies of all parameters of the EOS are obtained. We select some different fluids, namely Ar, N 2 , CH 4 , Ne, CO 2 , C 2 H 6 , C 3 H 8 , NH 3 and H 2 O which are spherical, roughly spherical, non-spherical, polar and associated fluids, due to their abundance of P-V-T experimental data. We have found that, except for the critical region, 0.8 < ρ r ≤ 1.5, 1 ≤ T r ≤ 1.5, the new EOS is accurate for all temperatures and densities available in the literatures, in such a way that the average percent deviation of density for Ar, Ne, N 2 , CH 4 , CO 2 , C 2 H 6 , C 3 H 8 , and NH 3 is less than 2.81%. Then some thermodynamic properties including vapor-pressure curve, Joule-Thomson inversion curve, P-T isochors curves, and the second virial coefficient have been applied to check the accuracy of the new EOS. Results for some isochors of argon show that the new EOS gives a small negative curvature for all isochors. The new EOS prediction of the inversion Joule-Thomson curve is reasonable, and its prediction of Clausius-Clapeyron diagram for neon and argon is very accurate, but small deviation for methane and nitrogen can be seen.
Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nov 7, 2014
Fluid Phase Equilibria, Dec 1, 2007
Using the newly introduced asymptotic expansion method to obtain equations of state for hard sphe... more Using the newly introduced asymptotic expansion method to obtain equations of state for hard sphere fluid, new simple equations of state for hard disks based on known virial coefficients are derived. Comparison of the obtained equations of state with computer simulation data shows that they are accurate in the whole fluid region.
Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jun 1, 2001
A new model for the vapor phase of a pressurized liquid called&quot; the cluster model&am... more A new model for the vapor phase of a pressurized liquid called&quot; the cluster model&quot;, which is originally introduced in this work along with an accurate equation of state for the liquid phase called the LIR is used to derive an accurate equation for the vapor pressure of ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00268970601082887, Feb 16, 2007
ABSTRACT
Iranian Journal of Chemistry Chemical Engineering International English Edition, Jan 19, 2011
In this paper the density and temperature dependencies of surface tension are investigated. Using... more In this paper the density and temperature dependencies of surface tension are investigated. Using the Lennard-Jones (12,6), as an effective pair interaction potential, a linear expression is derived for isotherms of γ /ρ 2 versus ρ 2 for some normal and ChloroFluoroCarbons (CFCs) fluids, where is surface tension and ρ = 1/v is molar density. The linearity behavior of the derived equation is well fitted onto the experimental data of surface tension for monatomic, diatomic, nonpolar, polar, hydrogen-bonded and chlorofluorocarbons. In addition, the temperature dependence of surface tension for 20 different fluids is examined, in which the contributions of both terms of the average effective pair potential to the γ are determined. For all liquids investigated in this work, surface tension increases with density except for water. The surface tension of water for isotherms within 280-300 K decreases with density, whereas increases within the range of 310-320 K.
In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using onl... more In the present work, the thermodynamic states of the inversion curve have been obtained using only p v-T data. We have also shown a linear relationship between compressibility factor and pressure for each branch of the inversion curve. These lines can be used to find the maximum inversion pressure, P in . Finally, we have predicted the temperature at which the Joule-Thomson coefficient, m J-T , Has its maximum value for each isobar, by using the specific heat capacity, isobaric expansivity, or compressibility factor.
J Phys Chem a, 2005
The hydrogen abstraction reaction of the OH radical with CH 3 CHF 2 (HFC152-a) has been studied t... more The hydrogen abstraction reaction of the OH radical with CH 3 CHF 2 (HFC152-a) has been studied theoretically over a wide temperature range, 200-3000 K. Two different reactive sites of the molecule, CH 3 and CHF 2 groups have been investigated precisely, and results confirm that CHF 2 position of the molecule is a highly reactive site. In this study, three recently developed hybrid density functional theories, namely, MPWB1K, MPW1B95, and MPW1K, are used. The MPWB1K/6-31+G(d,p) method gives the best result for kinetic calculations, including barrier heights, reaction path information and geometry of transition state structures and other stationary points. To refine the barrier height of each channel, a single point energy calculation was performed in MPWB1K/MG3S method. The obtained rate constants by dual level direct dynamics with the interpolated single point energy method (VTST-ISPE) using DFT quantum computational methods, are consistent with available experimental data. The canonical variational transition state theory (CVT) with the zero-curvature and also the small-curvature tunneling correction methods is used to calculate the rate constants. Over the temperature range 200-3000 K, the variation effect, tunneling contribution, branching ratio of each channel are calculated. The rate constants and their temperature dependency in the form of a fitted threeparameter Arrhenius expression are k 1 (T) ) 2.00 × 10 -19 (T) 2.24 exp(-1273/T), k 2 (T) ) 1.95 × 10 -19 (T) 2.46 exp(-2374/T), and k(T) ) 3.13 × 10 -19 (T) 2.47 exp(-1694/T) cm 3 molecule -1 s -1 . For the H abstraction from the CHF 2 group, a nonclassical reflection effect is detected as a dominant quantum effect.