The experimental speeds of sound
combined with Brillouin frequency
shifts of ethyl laurate at temperatures from 294.97 to 572.89 K along
six isobaric lines from 0.1 to 10.0 MPa were measured by Rayleigh–Brillouin
light-scattering spectroscopy. The expanded relative uncertainty in
the reported speeds of sound in ethyl laurate is estimated to be 1.3%
(coverage factor k = 2 with a confidence level of
0.95). Within the temperature limits of 303.15–383.15 K and
at pressures up to 10.0 MPa, the derived thermoacoustic properties
of ethyl laurate including density, specific isobaric heat capacity,
isentropic compressibility, isobaric thermal expansivity, isothermal
compressibility, the difference in isobaric and isochoric heat capacity,
internal pressure, and intermolecular free length were studied. Because
of the heavily updated data of density and the speed of sound in the
literature, a modified Jacobson’s model for biodiesels was
proposed over the temperature range from 293.15 to 343.15 K, which
is able to calculate the intermolecular free length of ethyl laurate
with higher accuracy compared with Jacobson’s model.