TY  - EJOU
AU  - Mousavi, S. A.  
AU  - Yousefi, T.  
AU  - Saghir, Z.  

TI  - Experimental Investigation on Thermal Diffusion in Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures
T2  - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing

PY  - 2017
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
SN  - 1555-2578

AB  - 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.
KW  - Thermal diffusion
KW  -  interferometry
KW  -  Mach-Zehnder

DO  - 10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.213