Methane¶

References¶

Equation of State¶

U. Setzmann and W. Wagner. A New Equation of State and Tables of Thermodynamic Properties for Methane Covering the Range from the Melting Line to 625 K at Pressures up to 1000 MPa. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 20(6):1061–1151, 1991. doi:10.1063/1.555898.

Thermal Conductivity¶

Daniel G. Friend, James F. Ely, and Hepburn Ingham. Thermophysical Properties of Methane. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1989. doi:10.1063/1.555828.

Viscosity¶

Sergio E. Quiñones-Cisneros and Ulrich K. Deiters. Generalization of the Friction Theory for Viscosity Modeling. J. Phys. Chem. B, 110:12820–12834, 2006. doi:10.1021/jp0618577.

Melting Line¶

Evan H. Abramson. Melting curves of argon and methane. High Pressure Research, 31(4):549–554, 2011. doi:10.1080/08957959.2011.629617.

Surface Tension¶

A. Mulero, I. Cachadiña, and M. I. Parra. Recommended Correlations for the Surface Tension of Common Fluids. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 41(4):043105–1:13, 2012. doi:10.1063/1.4768782.

Aliases¶

CH4, methane, METHANE, R50

Fluid Information¶

Parameter, Value
General
Molar mass [kg/mol] 0.0160428
CAS number 74-82-8
ASHRAE class A3
Formula $$CH_{4}$$
Acentric factor 0.01142
InChI InChI=1/CH4/h1H4
InChIKey VNWKTOKETHGBQD-UHFFFAOYAM
SMILES C
ChemSpider ID 291
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Limits
Maximum temperature [K] 625.0
Maximum pressure [Pa] 1000000000.0
Triple point
Triple point temperature [K] 90.6941
Triple point pressure [Pa] 11696.064115
Critical point
Critical point temperature [K] 190.564
Critical point density [kg/m3] 162.660002678
Critical point density [mol/m3] 10139.128
Critical point pressure [Pa] 4599200.0

REFPROP Validation Data¶

Note

This figure compares the results generated from CoolProp and those generated from REFPROP. They are all results obtained in the form $$Y(T,\rho)$$, where $$Y$$ is the parameter of interest and which for all EOS is a direct evaluation of the EOS

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Consistency Plots¶

The following figure shows all the flash routines that are available for this fluid. A red + is a failure of the flash routine, a black dot is a success. Hopefully you will only see black dots. The red curve is the maximum temperature curve, and the blue curve is the melting line if one is available for the fluid.

In this figure, we start off with a state point given by T,P and then we calculate each of the other possible output pairs in turn, and then try to re-calculate T,P from the new input pair. If we don’t arrive back at the original T,P values, there is a problem in the flash routine in CoolProp. For more information on how these figures were generated, see CoolProp.Plots.ConsistencyPlots

Note

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