Ultrasonic, surface tension and thermoacoustical studies of alkanone + amine mixtures

Thermophysical properties have wide applications in various fields like chemical industries, mass and heat transfer processes, design and engineering calculations of industrial plants and their evaluation in liquid mixtures gives us a better understanding of intermolecular interactions taking place therein. The binary liquid mixtures under the current study comprise a range of alkanones viz. 2-Propanone, 2-Butanone, 2-Pentanone and 2-Heptanone with aromatic amines like Aniline, N-methylaniline and Pyridine at temperatures 293.15 K to 303.15 K which have multifarious industrial applications. In the present investigation, ultrasonic velocity\((u)\) studies have been carried out using five approaches at three temperatures. Furthermore, surface tension\((\sigma )\), acoustical impedance\((z)\) and thermoacoustical parameters along with non-linearity parameters (B/A) have been evaluated. The variations in molecular interactions are well understood through interaction parameters\((\chi )\). The obtained results indicate that the order of interactions is Pyridine < N-methylaniline  < Aniline for a specific alkanone and 2-Propanone > 2-Butanone > 2-Pentanone > 2-Heptanone for a given amine at all three temperatures. The study of thermophysical properties have been elaborated to understand the order of the interactions between various amines and alkanones.