Experimental Joule-Thomson measurements were made on gaseous propane at temperatures from 100 to 280˚F and at pressures from 8 to 66 psia.Joule-Thomson measurements were also made on gaseous n-butane at temperatures from 100 to 280˚ and at pressures from 8 to 42 psia.For propane, the values of these measurements ranged from 0.07986˚F/psi at 280˚F and 8.01 psia to 0.19685˚F/psi at 100˚F and 66.15 psia.For n-butane, the values ranged from 0.11031˚F/psi at 280˚F and 9.36 psia to 0.30141˚F/psi at 100˚F and 41.02 psia.The experimental values have a maximum error of 1.5 percent.
For n-butane, the measurements of this study did not agree with previous Joule-Thomson measurements made in the Laboratory in 1935.The application of a thermal-transfer correction to the previous experimental measurements would cause the two sets of data to agree.Calculated values of the Joule-Thomson coefficient from other types of p-v-t data did agree with the present measurements for n-butane.
The apparatus used to measure the experimental Joule-Thomson coefficients had a radial-flow porous thimble and was operated at pressure changes between 2.3 and 8.6 psi.The major difference between this and other Joule-Thomson apparatus was its larger weight rates of flow (up to 6 pounds per hour) at atmospheric pressure.The flow rate was shown to have an appreciable effect on non-isenthalpic Joule-Thomson measurements.
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