Recommended Correlations for the Surface Tension of Ethers

Surface tension values for 82 ethers have been compiled from databases, books, and papers in the literature. The data were carefully screened, and finally, 2122 values were selected. Each fluid dataset has been fitted with the Guggenheim–Katayama correlation with two, four, or six adjustable parameters, except diphenyl ether, for which the data taken from different sources clearly disagree. Thus, recommended correlations are proposed for 81 ethers. The proposed correlations provide mean absolute deviations equal to or below 0.5 mN/m and mean absolute percentage deviations below 2.6% for 79 ethers. Moreover, percentage deviations below 9.5% are obtained for all the selected data of 78 ethers. The highest deviations found are due to the disagreement between the data obtained from different sources and not to an inadequate mathematical form of the correlation model. These correlations are added to the collection of those previously proposed for different fluids, including common substances, alcohols, refrigerants, organic acids, n-alkanes, and esters.