Influence of the Molecular Structure on the Volumetric Properties and Viscosities of Dialkyl Adipates (Dimethyl, Diethyl, and Diisobutyl Adipates)

This paper reports new measurements of the density of dimethyl adipate (DMA) and diisobutyl adipate (DiBA) over 12 isotherms from (293.15 to 403.15) K and 15 isobars from (0.1 to 140) MPa. The density of diethyl adipate (DEA) in the same conditions has already been published in a previous work. Viscosity data for the three fluids are also presented from (283.15 to 373.15) K at 0.1 MPa. The influence of the size of the adipate chains on the thermophysical properties has been analyzed. The correlation of the densities against pressure and temperature with the Tammann-Tait equation were used to obtain the isothermal compressibility and the isobaric thermal expansivity. The linear dependence between the tangent bulk modulus at atmospheric pressure and the secant bulk modulus at 100 MPa recently proposed by Kiselev et al. is also used in this work to calculate the isothermal compressibility at atmospheric pressure.