| Abstract
| - The new refrigerant fluids are generally not compatible with traditional mineral oils used for the lubrification ofcompressors. Different typologies of oils have been proposed, such as polyalkylene glycol (PAG), alkylbenzene(AB), and polyol ester (POE) oils. New thermodynamic models are necessary to describe well the behavior ofthese fluids, but at the moment only few experimental data are available in the literature. The work presented inthis paper is part of our research program aimed to evaluate the solubility of refrigerants in commercial oils. Thedensity of five different pentaerythritol esters is presented, which are used as components of the commercial POEoils (i.e., pentaerythritol ester of butyric acid (PEC4), pentaerythritol ester of valeric acid (PEC5), pentaerythritolester of hexanoic acid (PEC6), pentaerythritol ester of heptanoic acid (PEC7), and pentaerythritol ester of octanoicacid (PEC8)). The experimental compressed liquid density data were correlated by means of a particular equationthat is also presented in this paper.
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