Parachor

Parachor software estimates the surface tension of binary liquid mixtures with the Parachor method using the Peng-Robinson equation of state for density calculation, two component-specific constants called Parachors, and an exponent parameter.
The estimated surface tension dependence on temperature and concentration can be saved in the form of a lookup table implemented as a C function.
The list of the available binary mixtures includes:

  • diethylether - nitrogen
  • propane - carbon dioxide
  • butane - carbon dioxide
  • isobutane - carbon dioxide
  • chlorodifluoromethane - carbon dioxide

Download

The zip archive with program source files can be downloaded here .

Installation

The parachor software is implemented in Python and it requires several dependencies installed in the system: python, numpy, matplotlib, python-qt4, texlive, dvipng. On an Ubuntu system, the dependencies are installed by:

  sudo apt-get install numpy python-matplotlib 
  python-qt4 texlive texlive-latex-extra dvipng

After unzipping the downloaded archive, the program is run by:

  python parachor.py 


Fig. 1: Comparison of the surface tension calculated with the parachor method (solid lines) and experimental data (full circles) in the case of butane - carbon dioxide mixture.  

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