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ANL--7323
Chemistry
(TID-4500)
AEC Research and
Development
Report
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THERMOPHYSICAL
PROPERTIES
OF
SODIUM
by
G. H. Golden and J.
V.
Tokar
Reactor
Engineering
Division
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TABLE
OF
CONTENT,S
Page
NOMENCLATURE...................'..: .... :.........·: : . . . . 8
SUMMARY
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · . . , . . . . . . . .
9.
SUMMARY
OF
PROPERTIES
EQUATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0
I. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
II. DENSITY
OF
LIQUID
SODIUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
III.
SATURATION
VAPOR
PRESSURE
OF
SODIUM . . . . . . . . . . 16
IV. THERMODYNAMIC AND
P-V-T
PROPERTIES
. . . . . . . . . .
20
V. TRANSPORT
PRO
PERTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A.1.
Thermal
Conductivity
of
Liquid
Sodium . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A.2.
Thermal
Conductivity
of
Sodium
V a p o r. . . . . . . . . . . . 43
B.1. Viscosity
of
Liquid
S o d i u m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
B.2, Viscosity
of
Sodium
Vapor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
VI.
ELECTRICAL
R E S I S T I V I T Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
VII.
SURFACE
TENSION
. . . . . · . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 58
VIII.
THERMAL
EXPANSION
COEFFICIENT,
COMPRESSIBIL-
ITY,
AND
SONIC
VELOCITY
FOR
LIQUID
SODIUM . . . . . . . 63
'
REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 6
APPENDIXES
A. Sodium P-V-T
and
Thermodynamic
Properties
Subroutine.
77
B. Saturation P-V-T
and
Thermodynamic
Properties
of Sodium
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
C. Transport
and
Related
Properties
of Sodium.......... 86
D.
Provisional
Specific
Heat,
Prandtl
Number,
and
Thermal
Diffusivity of
the
Vapor....
92
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TABLE
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CONTENTS
Page
E.
Thermal
Expansion,
Compressibility,
and
Thermal
Pressure
Coefficient
of
Liquid
S o d i u m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
F. H-S and
T-S
Charts
for
Sodium.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
101