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I.3.2. Apparatus <strong>and</strong> Procedure<br />

Experimental Methods, Results <strong>and</strong> Discussion<br />

In this work, an apparatus based on the static method was built to measure the<br />

vapour pressures of the compounds under study. A scheme of the set-up is depicted in<br />

Figure II.5. It consists mainly of a glass sample cell (A), a thermostatic bath (B), a<br />

temperature measurement system, pressure measuring system (C) <strong>and</strong> a temperature<br />

controlled glass vacuum line interconnecting the sample cell to the degassing system <strong>and</strong><br />

to the pressure sensor.<br />

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Figure II.5. Scheme of the vapor pressure apparatus: A, Cell; B, water bath; C, pressure<br />

transducer; D, liquid nitrogen trap; E, hot water jacket protected tube; F, condenser; G, vacuum<br />

pump; H, datalogger; I, computer; J, temperature controller; L, cell temperature sensor (Pt100); M,<br />

hot-block box for the pressure sensor; N, PID temperature controller; V, high vacuum Teflon<br />

valves.<br />

For the studied temperature range, water was used as thermostatic bath fluid. The<br />

temperature in the bath was controlled with a digitally controlled immersion thermostat,<br />

Digiterm 100 (J). For temperatures below 298 K a refrigerated immersion cooling coil was<br />

used. The stability <strong>and</strong> uniformity of the temperature in the working area of the<br />

thermostatic bath was better than ± 0.01 K.<br />

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