This
study reports the experimental measurements of speeds of sound
from 293.15 to 313.15 K and pressures up to 100 MPa in 1,2-dichloroethane,
and up to 45 MPa in 1,2-dibromoethane, approaching solidification
of this compound. In addition, new atmospheric pressure data on densities
of 1,2-dichloroethane from 278.15 to 348.15 K are presented. These
experimental data have been implemented for calculating densities,
isobaric heat capacities and coefficients of thermal expansion, isentropic
and isothermal compressibilities, and internal pressures as functions
of pressure and temperature by using an acoustic method of Davis–Gordon–Sun.
Development of a new Design Institute for Physical Properties (DIPPR)-based
version of the fluctuation theory-based Tait-like equation of state
(FT-EoS) is presented. This model could become a simple and reliable
tool implementing the DIPPR’s saturated state expressions for
predicting the high-pressure densities and speeds of sound. It has
also been demonstrated that both compounds under consideration can
be included in the applicability range of the predictive critical
point-based perturbed-chain statistical association fluid theory (CP-PC-SAFT)
approach employing the DIPPR’s critical constants. In spite
of its poor modeling of vapor pressures of these substances away from
their critical points, CP-PC-SAFT appears as a robust estimator of
various thermodynamic properties of both pure compounds and mixtures
in the entire pressure range, and as well of the high-pressure phase
equilibria. Unlike CP-PC-SAFT, parametrization of PC-SAFT comprises
fitting large experimental databases, and it cannot be implemented
for simultaneous modeling of the critical and the subcritical states.
Although this model is the less successful estimator of sound velocities
and compressibilities, it has a doubtless advantage in modeling the
low-pressure phase equilibria.