%0 Journal Article %T Determination of solubility parameters and thermodynamic properties in hydrocarbon-solvent systems by gas chromatography %A D¨ªaz %A E. %A Cazurro %A A. %A Ord¨®£¿ez %A S. %A Vega %A A. %A Coca %A J. %J Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering %D 2007 %I Brazilian Society of Chemical Engineering %R 10.1590/S0104-66322007000200014 %X gas chromatography used to calculate the specific retention volume of several hydrocarbons in different chromatographic liquid phases (squalane, carbowax-400, carbowax-1500, carbowax-4000, amine-220, dinonyl phthalate, tributyl phosphate and trixylenyl phosphate). some thermodynamic parameters, such as enthalpy of sorption and flory-huggins parameters relating the interaction between liquid phases and solutes, were also calculated from the determined retention volumes. liquid phase solubility parameters of squalane, carbowax-400, carbowax-1500 and carbowax-4000 at 80 oc as well as the polar and apolar components were calculated too. a new model was proposed to correlate polar contribution to the solubility parameter of a liquid phase with the specific retention volume of a solute in this liquid phase. %K gas chromatography %K solubility parameter %K specific retention volume %K polar component %K flory-huggins interaction parameters. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-66322007000200014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en