Ideal-Gas Heat Capacity Values and Equations for Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Refrigerants Based on Speed-of-Sound Measurements

Final values of ideal-gas heat capacity c_p⁰ derived from speed-of-sound measurements using an acoustic spherical resonator and equations of c_p⁰ as a simple function of temperature are provided from an overall assessment of speed-of-sound measurements for five hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, difluoromethane (R32), pentafluoroethane (R125), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R134a), 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (R143a), and 1,1-difluoroethane (R152a). Some of the experimental results had systematic errors in comparison with theoretical calculations based on spectroscopic data, which seem to result from the impurity of the sample fluids. The agreement of the experimentally determined and theoretically calculated c_p ⁰ values was confirmed for HFC refrigerants. The uncertainty of c_p⁰ values calculated from the proposed equations is estimated to be 0.1 or 0.2% corresponding to an ISO uncertainty with a coverage factor of k= 1. An erratum for Table I in a previous report by Yokozeki et al. in 1999 is provided as an appendix.