Soret Measurement for Multi-Component Hydrocarbon Mixtures from Space Experiment Conducted Onboard FOTON M3 Unmanned Satellite

In an unprecedented experimental investigation, a binary, a ternary and a four-component hydrocarbon mixture at different pressure have been studied in a nearly convection free environment to understand the thermodiffusion process. Experimental investigations of the mixtures have been conducted in space onboard the spacecraft FOTON-M3. The experiment objective was to measure the thermodiffusion coefficient for multi-component hydrocarbon …