Conversion relation in equivalent carbon number between interfacial tensions of chain/cyclic hydrocarbon-CO2 system

Abstract

A great number of published data and our experimental results of interfacial tensions between hydrocarbon compounds and CO2 were collected and screened. Based on these experimental data, the changing laws of interfacial tensions between different kinds of hydrocarbon compounds and CO2 were obtained, interfacial tensions between different kinds of saturated chain hydrocarbons and CO2 were compared with each other, and interfacial tensions of three different binary system (monocyclic hydrocarbon compounds-CO2 system, hydrocarbon compounds monocyclic and chain structure-CO2 system and dicyclic hydrocarbon compounds-CO2 system) were compared with those of saturated chain hydrocarbon compounds-CO2 system. It is found that molecular structure is the main factor to affect the sizes of interfacial tensions between hydrocarbon compounds and CO2; when carbon numbers of different kinds of hydrocarbon compounds are equal, their proper order from big to small in interfacial tension is: polycyclic hydrocarbon, hydrocarbon monocyclic and chain structure, monocyclic hydrocarbon, saturated chain hydrocarbon. The comparison results at different pressure conditions were respectively used to establish the conversion relations in equivalent carbon number between interfacial tensions of cyclic hydrocarbon-CO2 systems and those of saturated chain hydrocarbon-CO2 systems. Key words: saturated chain hydrocarbon, cyclic hydrocarbon, CO2, interfacial tension, equivalent carbon number, conversion relation