Enthalpy-concentration diagrams ammonia-water

Figure 3.3. Enthalpy-concentration diagram for aqueous ammonia. Reference states enthalpies of liquid water at 0°C and liquid ammonia at —77°C are zero. (Bosniakovic, Technische Thermodynamik, T. Steinkopff,... 

Figure 8 -2 Enthalpy-concentration diagram for the ammonia-water system at 1 atm. (From G. G. Brown el al.. Unit Operations, 1950. Figure 551. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley Sons.)...

Enthalpy-concentration charts are particularly useful for two-component systems in which vapor and liquid phases are in equilibrium. The Gibbs phase rule (Equation 6.2-1) specifies that such a system has (2 -I- 2 - 2) = 2 degrees of freedom. If as before we fix the system pressure, then specifying only one more intensive variable—the system temperature, or the mass or mole fraction of either component in either phase—fixes the values of all other intensive variables in both phases. An H-x diagram for the ammonia-water system at 1 atm is shown in Figure 8.5-2. 

The variation of enthalpy for binary mixtures is conveniently represented on a diagram. An example is shown in Figure 3.3. The diagram shows the enthalpy of mixtures of ammonia and water versus concentration with pressure and temperature as parameters. It covers the phase changes from solid to liquid to vapour, and the enthalpy values given include the latent heats for the phase transitions. 

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