At low pressures

Compilation of physical properties for 321 heavy hydrocarbons. Vapor pressures at low pressures. ... 

The standard-state fugacity of any component must be evaluated at the same temperature as that of the solution, regardless of whether the symmetric or unsymmetric convention is used for activity-coefficient normalization. But what about the pressure At low pressures, the effect of pressure on the thermodynamic properties of condensed phases is negligible and under such con-... 

If the vapor mixture contains only ideal gases, the integrals in Equations (3) and (6) are zero, z is unity for all compositions, and ()i equals 1 for each component i. At low pressures, typically less than 1 bar, it is frequently a good assumption to set ( ) = 1, but even at moderately low pressures, say in the vicinity of 1 to 10 bars, (f) is often significantly different from unity, especially if i is a polar component. 

While vapor-phase corrections may be small for nonpolar molecules at low pressure, such corrections are usually not negligible for mixtures containing polar molecules. Vapor-phase corrections are extremely important for mixtures containing one or more carboxylic acids. 

As discussed in Chapter 3, at moderate pressures, vapor-phase nonideality is usually small in comparison to liquid-phase nonideality. However, when associating carboxylic acids are present, vapor-phase nonideality may dominate. These acids dimerize appreciably in the vapor phase even at low pressures fugacity coefficients are well removed from unity. To illustrate. Figures 8 and 9 show observed and calculated vapor-liquid equilibria for two systems containing an associating component. 

At low pressures, it is often permissible to neglect nonidealities of the vapor phase. If these nonidealities are not negligible, they can have the effect of introducing a nonrandom trend into the plotted residuals similar to that introduced by systematic error. Experience here has shown that application of vapor-phase corrections for nonidealities gives a better representation of the data by the model, oven when these corrections... 

Finally, at low pressures, the liquid fugacity can be calculated using Equation (5), i.e. we can assume that <() = 1 and that the Poynting correction = 1. 

Steam costs vary with the price of fuel. If steam is only generated at low pressure and not used for power generation in steam turbines, then the cost can be estimated from local fuel costs assuming a boiler efficiency of around 75 percent (but can be significantly higher) and distribution losses of perhaps another 10 percent, giving an overall efficiency of around 65 percent. 

Adams catalyst, platinum oxide, Pt02 H20. Produced by fusion of H2PtCl6 with sodium nitrate at 500-550 C and leaching of the cooled melt with water. Stable in air, activated by hydrogen. Used as a hydrogenation catalyst for converting alkenes to alkanes at low pressure and temperature. Often used on Si02... 

Boyle s law At constant temperature the volume of a given mass of gas is inversely proportional to the pressure. Although exact at low pressures, the law is not accurately obeyed at high pressures because of the finite size of molecules and the existence of intermolecular forces. See van der Waals equation. 

The free radicals which have only a transient existence, like -CHa, C2H5 or OH, and are therefore usually met with only as intermediates in chemical reactions, can usually be prepared and studied directly only at low pressures of the order of 1 mm, when they may be transported from the place of preparation in a rapidly streaming inert gas without suffering... 

This method is reserved for heavy fractions. The distillation takes place at low pressure from 1 to 50 mmHg. The results are most often converted into equivalent atmospheric temperatures by using a standard relation that neglects the chemical nature of the components ... 

The isobaric specific heat for a petroleum fraction is estimated by a correlation attributed to Watson and Nelson in 1933, which was used again by. Johnson and Grayson in 1961 as well as by Lee and Kesler in 1975. This relation is valid at low pressures i... 

The modern reforming process operates with continuous regeneration of the catalyst, at low pressure (2 to 5 bar) and high temperature (510-530°C). 

Catalytic cracking is a key refining process along with catalytic reforming and alkylation for the production of gasoline. Operating at low pressure and in the gas phase, it uses the catalyst as a solid heat transfer medium. The reaction temperature is 500-540°C and residence time is on the order of one second. 

Simple conventional refining is based essentially on atmospheric distillation. The residue from the distillation constitutes heavy fuel, the quantity and qualities of which are mainly determined by the crude feedstock available without many ways to improve it. Manufacture of products like asphalt and lubricant bases requires supplementary operations, in particular separation operations and is possible only with a relatively narrow selection of crudes (crudes for lube oils, crudes for asphalts). The distillates are not normally directly usable processing must be done to improve them, either mild treatment such as hydrodesulfurization of middle distillates at low pressure, or deep treatment usually with partial conversion such as catalytic reforming. The conventional refinery thereby has rather limited flexibility and makes products the quality of which is closely linked to the nature of the crude oil used. 

The above equation is valid at low pressures where the assumptions hold. However, at typical reservoir temperatures and pressures, the assumptions are no longer valid, and the behaviour of hydrocarbon reservoir gases deviate from the ideal gas law. In practice, it is convenient to represent the behaviour of these real gases by introducing a correction factor known as the gas deviation factor, (also called the dimensionless compressibility factor, or z-factor) into the ideal gas law ... 

Gas processing facilities generally work best at between 10 and 100 bar. At low pressure, vessels have to be large to operate effectively, whereas at higher pressures facilities can be smaller but vessel walls and piping systems must be thicker. Optimum recovery of heavy hydrocarbons is achieved between 20 bar and 40 bar. Long distance pipeline pressures may reach 150 bar and reinjection pressure can be as high as 700 bar. The gas process line will reflect gas quality and pressure as well as delivery specifications. 

Fig. IV-20. Film pressure-area plots for cerebronic acid (a long-chain a-hydroxy carboxylic acid) and cholesterol (see insert) and for an equimolar mixture. At low pressures the r-a plot is close to that of the average (dashed line), an unanticipated kink then appears, and finally, the horizontal portion probably represents ejection of the cholesterol. (From Ref. 239.)...

Pressure-area isotherms for many polymer films lack the well-defined phase regions shown in Fig. IV-16 such films give the appearance of being rather amorphous and plastic in nature. At low pressures, non-ideal-gas behavior is approached as seen in Fig. XV-1 for polyfmethyl acrylate) (PMA). The limiting slope is given by a viiial equation... 

It is of interest to examine the algebraic behavior of Eq. XVII-7. At low pressure, the amount adsorbed becomes proportional to the pressure... 

The viscosity, themial conductivity and diffusion coefficient of a monatomic gas at low pressure depend only on the pair potential but through a more involved sequence of integrations than the second virial coefficient. The transport properties can be expressed in temis of collision integrals defined [111] by... 

Substances at high dilution, e.g. a gas at low pressure or a solute in dilute solution, show simple behaviour. The ideal-gas law and Henry s law for dilute solutions antedate the development of the fonualism of classical themiodynamics. Earlier sections in this article have shown how these experimental laws lead to simple dieniiodynamic equations, but these results are added to therniodynaniics they are not part of the fonualism. Simple molecular theories, even if they are not always recognized as statistical mechanics, e.g. the kinetic theory of gases , make the experimental results seem trivially obvious. 

It is clear from figure A3.4.3 that the second-order law is well followed. Flowever, in particular for recombination reactions at low pressures, a transition to a third-order rate law (second order in the recombining species and first order in some collision partner) must be considered. If the non-reactive collision partner M is present in excess and its concentration [M] is time-independent, the rate law still is pseudo-second order with an effective second-order rate coefficient proportional to [Mj. 

Quack M 1984 On the mechanism of reversible unimolecular reactions and the canonical ( high pressure ) limit of the rate coefficient at low pressures Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 88 94-100... 

Another powerftil class of instmnientation used to study ion-molecule reactivity is trapping devices. Traps use electric and magnetic fields to store ions for an appreciable length of time, ranging from milliseconds to thousands of seconds. Generally, these devices mn at low pressure and thus can be used to obtain data at pressures well below the range in which flow tubes operate. 

The chemically activated molecules are fonned by reaction of with the appropriate fliiorinated alkene. In all these cases apparent non-RRKM behaviour was observed. As displayed in figure A3.12.11 the measured imimolecular rate constants are strongly dependent on pressure. The large rate constant at high pressure reflects an mitial excitation of only a fraction of the total number of vibrational modes, i.e. initially the molecule behaves smaller than its total size. However, as the pressure is decreased, there is time for IVR to compete with dissociation and energy is distributed between a larger fraction of the vibrational modes and the rate constant decreases. At low pressures each rate constant approaches the RRKM value. 

Troe J 1977 Theory of thermal unimolecular reactions at low pressures. I. Solutions of the master equation J. Chem. Phys. 66 4745-57... 

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