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Figure 8-25. Example of typical pinch point for critical region for high-pressure distillation. Used by permission, Wichterle, I., Kobayashi, R., and Chappeiear, P. S., Hydrocarbon Processing, Nov. (1971) p. 233, Gulf Publishing Co., all rights reserved.

Figure 8.6B shows a wider P-T portion with the location of the critical region for H2O, bound by the 421.85 °C isotherm and the p = 0.20 and 0.42 glcvci isochores. The PVT properties of H2O within the critical region are accurately described by the nonclassical (asymptotic scaling) equation of state of Levelt Sengers et al. (1983). Outside the critical region and up to 1000 °C and 15 kbar, PVT properties of H2O are accurately reproduced by the classical equation of state of Haar et al. (1984). An appropriate description of the two equations of state is beyond the purposes of this textbook, and we refer readers to the excellent revision of Johnson and Norton (1991) for an appropriate treatment. 

Notice that in our calculation we have both closed and open ionization channels. This means that the quantum defect/frame transformation approach appears to work very well both below and above the critical region for which n - 100,..., 1000.1 would find it surprising if the approach failed in that region. 

Determine the distribution of the test statistic and the critical region for the... 

Stell, G. Scaling theory of the critical region for systems with long-range forces. 

The uncertainties of the equation of state are approximately 0.2% (to 0.5% at high pressures) in density, 1% (in the vapor phase) to 2% in heat capacity, 1% (in the vapor phase) to 2% in the speed of sound, and 0.2% in vapor pressure, except in the critical region. For viscosity, estimated uncertainty is 2%. For thermal conductivity, estimated uncertainty, except near the critical region, is 4-6%. 

Andrews (I) first discovered the critical point of a fluid in 1869. Shortly thereafter in 1873, Van der Waals (2) presented his dissertation, On the Continuity of the Gas and Liquid State. This and later work in the following twenty years provided the classical theory of the critical region for fluids. However, Verschaffelt in the early 1900 s found the critical exponents / and 8 to be about 0.35 and 4.26, respectively, compared with the classical values of 1/2 and 3. The surface tension exponent also was found to be near 1.25 instead of the classical value of 3/2. An excellent detailed historical review of this period has been given by Levelt Sengers (3). 

Thermodynamically consistent, nonanalytical, empirical equations of state induced from experimental measurements can avoid the above difficulties. Since 1965, at least two laboratories actively were developing isochoric equations of state (Refs. 10,11). These workers had the benefit of the scaling work and included nonclassical behavior in the critical region for their equations. The equation presented in this chapter arose from utilizing the same basic strategy. 

We have chosen ethylene and water as substances to correlate with our equation of state. The reasons for picking these substances are their considerable practical and theoretical importance, and because of the apparently poor state of correlation in the critical region for ethylene in the IUPAC tables (15) and for water in the steam tables (16). Tables I and II present the results of the correlation. The agreement between observed and calculated pressures is excellent. The maximum percentage errors are 0.005% for ethylene and 0.09% for water. Tables III and IV present the values of the various parameters used in the correlation. For... 

A relatively simple, isochoric equation of state can describe the critical region for fluids such as ethylene and water using five critical parameters, four critical exponents, and eight adjustable constants. Agreement between observed and calculated pressures is excellent and the current values are much better than those in standard reference tables. 

A still more recent method [5] concentrates on the critical region for fluids. It seeks to match the order-parameter distribution at the critical point to that of the Ising-system (presumed to belong to the same universality class), thereby allowing evaluation of some nonuniversal critical parameters. This is an exciting idea. Its application requires the adjustment of several fitting parameters one hopes that it will prove to be robust and precise. 

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