Behavior of thermal diffusion of hydrofluorocarbon HFC-32 near the critical region

HCFC-22 prohibited after 2020 Year. The thermal diffusion values of HFC-32 were determined using a received cross-over equation of state and available experimental thermal-conductivity data reported by a number of investigations including the authors of this work. Extensive measurements have been obtained for thermal conductivity of difluoromethane with a steady-state method for which coaxial-cylinder apparatus was employed. The sample fluid was located in a gap between two vertical cylinders. The occurrence of convection in the fluid was avoided one to application of small temperature differences across the gap. The range of state points studied includes those with densities from 70 to 1000 kg·m⁻³, temperatures from 294 to 350 K and pressures up to 7 MPa. The isobaric specific heat values were determined from the crossover equation of state based on the phenomenological theory of a critical point and Benedek's hypothesis. A theoretically based crossover model is capable to represent the thermodynamic properties of HFC-32 in a large range of temperatures and densities including the critical point. (paper)