This work presents new experimental viscosity and density
data
for aromatic and polyaromatic compounds in binary and ternary pyrene,
1-methylnaphthalene, and dodecane mixtures. The lack of experimental
viscosity data for these mixtures requires the development of a new
database, which is vital for understanding the behavior of mixtures
in more complex systems, such as asphaltenes and fuels. The mixtures
proposed in this work have been measured over a temperature range
of (293.15 to 343.15) K at atmospheric pressure. Several mixture compositions
have been studied at these conditions: 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0, 12.5,
and 15.0% pyrene mass fraction. The concentration of pyrene correlates
with an increase in the viscosity and density values. At the lowest
temperature in binary mixtures, the corresponding values reach 4.4217
mPa·s for viscosity and 1.0447 × 103 kg·m–3 for density, respectively. In ternary mixtures, the
introduction of dodecane leads to the lowest maximum values of 3.5555
mPa·s for viscosity and 1.0112 × 103 kg·m–3 for density at the same temperature. The experimental
data have been employed for the specific modification of viscosity
models. These modifications could facilitate the prediction of the
viscosity of mixtures that are more complex than those presented in
this work. Various viscosity models have been employed, such as Linear,
Ratcliff and Khan, modified UNIFAC-Visco, and Krieger–Dougherty.
The settings in the models used reliably reproduce the experiment
reliably. However, the Ratcliff model agrees excellently with the
experiment, having a low standard deviation (2.0%) compared to other
models. Furthermore, a model based on the equation of state of Guo
is proposed to predict the viscosity values by modifying the specific
parameters and adjusting them to the mixtures proposed in this work.
The results from this study are compared to previous work, where pyrene,
toluene, and heptane mixtures were analyzed. In this case, we find
that the decrease of aggregation grade in the present systems is predicted
by the model fixed in this work.