Matthis Richter

1 Introduction Alternatives to fossil fuels are necessary for the long-term success of the energy transition and the protection of the climate. Nowadays, hydrogen is considered a versatile energy source and plays a central role on the path to future climate neutrality. Particularly, with regard to the defossilization of the heating and transport sectors, there are many opportunities to utilize hydrogen for material and energy purposes.

You are already at the latest version The utilization of empirical correlations for the estimation of thermodynamic functions is a valuable approach for reducing experimental effort and for validating existing data. Established correlations and group contribution methods provide reliable heat capacity estimates for simple organic compounds. The present work assesses the extent of deviations introduced by employing conventional heat capacity correlations for diols.