Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1992, 57, 1879-1887
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19921879

Viscosity of Diluted Aqueous K2CO3/KHCO3 Solutions

Zdeněk Palatý

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemical Technology, 532 10 Pardubice

Abstract

The applicability of the equation derived for calculating the dynamic viscosity of ternary non-electrolyte mixtures, to the correlation of viscosity data of the H2O- K2CO3/KHCO3 system is verified in this work. It was found out that the values of dynamic viscosity obtained experimentally are in good agreement with the viscosity values calculated from this equation. The equation constants - interaction coefficients - were determined from the measurements of dynamic viscosity on mixing the basic solutions of K2CO3 and KHCO3 of known concentration. The correlation equation makes it possible to calculate viscosity of the K2CO3/KHCO3 solutions in the K2CO3 and KHCO3 concentration range from 0 to about 2.0 kmol m-3.