Dielectric properties of alternative refrigerants

This paper gives an overview of our research, from experimental measurements of the relative permittivity on new and alternative refrigerants, to theoretical interpretation of the data and density functional and density functional self-consistent reaction field calculations for a series of HFC molecules. Experimental measurements were obtained as a function of temperature and pressure for Class B refrigerants-HCFC-123, HCFC-142b, HCFC-141b, Class A refrigerants-HFC-32, HFC-134a, HFC-152a, HFC-143a, HFC-227ea, HFC-245fa, HFC-365mfc and some mixtures of them: HFC-125/143a/134a (R-404A), HFC-32/125/134a (R-407C), HFC-125/143a (R-507), HFC-32/125 (R-410A). Density functional and density functional self-consistent reaction field calculations were performed for CHF2CF3 (HFC-125), CH2FCF3 (HFC-134a), CH3CF3 (HFC-143a), CH2F2 (HFC-32), and CHF2CH3 (HFC-152a). A particular emphasis has been given to the calculation of dimerisation energies, rotational potentials, polarisabilities and dipole moments.