TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental vapour pressures of eight n-Alkanes (C17, C18, C20, C22, C24, C26, C28 and C31) at ambient temperatures
AU - Alam, Salim
AU - Nikolova, Irina
AU - Singh, Ajit
AU - MacKenzie, A. Robert
AU - Harrison, Roy
PY - 2019/9/15
Y1 - 2019/9/15
N2 - We present direct room-temperature vapour pressure measurements for eight semi-volatile n-alkanes of atmospheric importance. Measured vapour pressures range from 8.4 ±1.6 x 10-3 Pa for C17, to 1.7 ±0.6 x 10-8 Pa for C31. The new measurements for C17-C18 are in reasonable agreement but at the lower end of values in the literature; the new measurements for C28 and C31 are one-to-two orders of magnitude higher than most literature values, but six orders of magnitude higher than the lowest values in the literature. Our measurements are suitable for atmospheric aerosol modelling and interpretation of environmental measurements, interpolated in carbon number where necessary, and extrapolated over temperatures relevant to the atmospheric boundary layer using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation with literature values of the enthalpy of vaporisation.
AB - We present direct room-temperature vapour pressure measurements for eight semi-volatile n-alkanes of atmospheric importance. Measured vapour pressures range from 8.4 ±1.6 x 10-3 Pa for C17, to 1.7 ±0.6 x 10-8 Pa for C31. The new measurements for C17-C18 are in reasonable agreement but at the lower end of values in the literature; the new measurements for C28 and C31 are one-to-two orders of magnitude higher than most literature values, but six orders of magnitude higher than the lowest values in the literature. Our measurements are suitable for atmospheric aerosol modelling and interpretation of environmental measurements, interpolated in carbon number where necessary, and extrapolated over temperatures relevant to the atmospheric boundary layer using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation with literature values of the enthalpy of vaporisation.
KW - Physico-chemical properties
KW - vapour pressure
KW - n-alkanes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069556830&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.06.025
DO - 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.06.025
M3 - Article
SN - 1352-2310
VL - 213
SP - 739
EP - 745
JO - Atmospheric Environment
JF - Atmospheric Environment
ER -