HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN DISPERSIVE MEDIA

THERMOPHYSICAL AND ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF THE PLURONIC PE6400 COPOLYMER
Z. Sh. Bakaeva, T. Kh. Akhmedov, M. R. Zaitdinov, Kh. T. Igamberdiev, S. Z. Mirzaev, M. G. Khaliullin, and P. K. Khabibullaev UDC 678.76 Experimental results of investigations of the specific heat and the velocity of sound in aqueous solutions of the Pluronic PE6400 copolymer have been presented. Phase transitions, phase states, and possible physical mechanisms of the effects have been discussed based on these results. Department of Thermophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 28 Katartal, Tashkent, 700135, Republic of Uzbekistan; email: khusanti@rambler.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 158-163, May-June, 2006. Original article submitted November 15, 2004; revision submitted May 27, 2005.