Prediction of high pressure liquid heat capacities of organic compounds by a group contribution method

Abstract

A new method for estimating high pressure liquid heat capacities based on molecular structure and group contribution is proposed. A common set of structural groups was employed. The method was developed using 67 sets of 43 organic compounds with 3449 experimental heat capacity data. A small number of measured compounds, data points per compound and other comparable methods were observed. This is a simple first-order approximation with acceptable accuracy of 2.55 %.