| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Research and Development, Negev Academic College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel;(2) Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel |
| Abstract: | Conductivity measurements of DL-pyroglutamic acid and sodium pyroglutamate in dilute aqueous solutions were performed in the 288.15–323.15 K temperature range. The limiting molar conductances of pyroglutamate anion, λo(pGlu−, T) and the dissociation constants of pyroglutamic acid, K(T) were derived from the Onsager, and the Quint and Viallard conductivity equations. Densities of aqueous solutions with molalities lower than 0.5 mol-kg−1 were determined at 5 K intervals from T = 288.15 K to 333.15 K. Densities served to evaluate the apparent molar volumes, V2,φ(m, T), the cubic expansion coefficients, α (m,T) and the changes of the isobaric heat capacities with respect to pressure, (∂ CP/∂ P)T,m. They were correlated qualitatively with the changes in the structure of water when pyroglumatic acid is dissolved in it. |
