Equilibria critical solution temperature

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For example, 0 describes the temperature dependence of composition near the upper critical solution temperature for binary (liquid + liquid) equilibrium, of the susceptibility in some magnetic phase transitions, and of the order parameter in (order + disorder) phase transitions. 

Using the estimated interaction parameters phase equilibrium computations were performed. It was found that the EoS is able to represent the VL2E behavior of the methane-n-hexane system in the temperature range of 198.05 to 444.25 K reasonably well. Typical results together with the experimental data at 273.16 and 444.25 K are shown in Figures 14.14 and 14.15 respectively. However, the EoS was found to be unable to correlate the entire phase behavior in the temperature range of 195.91 K (Upper Critical Solution Temperature) and 182.46K (Lower Critical Solution Temperature). 

For the two-component, two-phase liquid system, the question arises as to how much of each of the pure liquid components dissolves in the other at equilibrium. Indeed, some pairs of liquids are so soluble in each other that they become completely miscible with each other when mixed at any proportions. Such pairs, for example, are water and 1-propanol or benzene and carbon tetrachloride. Other pairs of liquids are practically insoluble in each other, as, for example, water and carbon tetrachloride. Finally, there are pairs of liquids that are completely miscible at certain temperatures, but not at others. For example, water and triethylamine are miscible below 18°C, but not above. Such pairs of liquids are said to have a critical solution temperature, For some pairs of liquids, there is a lower (LOST), as in the water-tiiethylamine pair, but the more common behavior is for pairs of liquids to have an upper (UCST), (Fig. 2.2) and some may even have a closed mutual solubility loop [3]. Such instances are rare in solvent extraction practice, but have been exploited in some systems, where separations have been affected by changes in the temperature. 

A critical solution temperature (CST) is the minimum temperature for mixing of two substances in all proportions as liquid (Figure 1) or it is the maximum temperature of a binary system for two liquid phases in equilibrium. 

Critical temperature, sometimes used in this discussion, is not to be confused with critical solution temperature. Critical temperature has its usual meaning of maximum temperature for equilibrium of liquid and vapor phases, usually of a single component, under pressure. 

The phase behaviour of many polymer-solvent systems is similar to type IV and type HI phase behaviour in the classification of van Konynenburg and Scott [5]. In the first case, the most important feature is the presence of an Upper Critical Solution Temperature (UCST) and a Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST). The UCST is the temperature at which two liquid phases become identical (critical) if the temperature is isobarically increased. The LCST is the temperature at which two liquid phases critically merge if the system temperature is isobarically reduced. At temperatures between the UCST and the LCST a single-phase region is found, while at temperatures lower than the UCST and higher than the LCST a liquid-liquid equilibrium occurs. Both the UCST and the LCST loci end in a critical endpoint, the point of intersection of the critical curve and the liquid liquid vapour (hhg) equilibrium line. In the two intersection points the two liquid phases become critical in the presence of a... 

CRITICAL COMPOSITION. Systems consisting of two liquid layers that are formed by the equilibrium between two partly miscible liquids, frequently have a constitute temperature or a critical solution temperature, beyund which Ihe two liquids are miscible in all proportions. At this temperature, ihe phase boundary disappears, and the two liquid layers merge into one. The composition of the mixture al that point is called the critical composition. There is, in some cases, a lower consolutc temperature as well as an upper consolule temperature. 

Phase equilibrium resulting in a UCST is the most common type of binary (liquid + liquid) equilibrium, but other types are also observed. For example, Figure 14.5 shows the (liquid + liquid) phase diagram for (xiH20 + jc2(C3H7)2NH. 7 A lower critical solution temperature (LCST) occurs in this system/ That is, at temperatures below the LCST, the liquids are totally miscible, but with heating, the mixture separates into two phases. 

Figure 14.10 The five types of (fluid + fluid) phase diagrams according to the Scott and van Konynenburg classification. The circles represent the critical points of pure components, while the triangles represent an upper critical solution temperature (u) or a lower critical solution temperature (1). The solid lines represent the (vapor + liquid) equilibrium lines for the pure substances. The dashed lines represent different types of critical loci. (l) [Ar + CH4], (2) [C02 + N20], (3) [C3H8 + H2S],...

The (liquid 4- liquid) equilibria diagram for (cyclohexane + methanol) was taken from D. C. Jones and S. Amstell, The Critical Solution Temperature of the System Methyl Alcohol-Cyclohexane as a Means of Detecting and Estimating Water in Methyl Alcohol , J. Chem. Soc., 1930, 1316-1323 (1930). The G results were calculated from the (vapor 4- liquid) results of K. Strubl, V. Svoboda, R. Holub, and J. Pick, Liquid-Vapour Equilibrium. XIV. Isothermal Equilibrium and Calculation of Excess Functions in the Systems Methanol -Cyclohexane and Cyclohexane-Propanol , Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun., 35, 3004-3019 (1970). The results are from M. Dai and J.-P.Chao, Studies on Thermodynamic Properties of Binary Systems Containing Alcohols. II. Excess Enthalpies of C to C5 Normal Alcohols + 1,4-Dioxane , Fluid Phase Equilib., 23, 321-326 (1985). 

Figure 13.15 is drawn for a single constant pressure equilibrium phase compositions, and hence the locations of the lines, change with pressure, but the general nature of the diagram is the same over a range of pressures. For the majority of systems the species become more soluble in one another as the temperature increases, as indicated by lines CG and DH of Fig. 13.15. If this diagram is drawn for successively higher pressures, the corresponding three-phase equilibrium temperatures increase, and lines CG and DH extend further and further until they meet at the liquid/liquid critical point Af, as shown by Fig. 13.16. The temperature at which this occurs is known as the upper critical solution temperature, and at this temperature the two liquid phases become identical and merge into a single phase.

For the hydrocarbon--CO2 systems studied here, at pressures above the critical pressure (7.383 MPa) and above the critical temperature (304.21 K) of C02 the isobaric x,T coexistence plots of liquid and vapor phases form simple closed loops. The minimum occurs at the lower consolute point or the Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST). Since pressure is usually uniform in the vicinity of a heat transfer surface, such diagrams serve to display the equilibrium states possible in a heat transfer experiment. 

Particularly evident is the lack of systematic reports on polymer-mixed solvents data (VLE or LLE) in the open hterature, especially in form of full-phase equilibrium measurements. Most experimental studies for mixed solvent systans have been reported by Chinese and Japanese investigators - and only a few by other investigators. Data are often reported simply as soluble/nonsoluble or as theta temperatures (critical solution temperature at infinite polymer molecular weight). Several reported polymer-mixed solvent data concern supercritical fluid applications (e.g., polypropylene/pen-tane/C02, and PEG/C02/cosolvent ) and bioseparations, especially for systems related to the partitioning of biomolecules in aqueons two-phase systems, which contain PEG and dextran. A recent review for data on solnbihty of gases in glassy polymers is also available. ... 

Generally, liquid-liquid phase equilibrium (or phase separation) occurs only over certain temperature ranges, bounded above by the upper consolute or upper critical solution temperature, and bounded below by the lower consolute or lower critical solution temperature. These critical solution temperatures are indicated on the liquid-liquid phase diagrams given here. All partially miscible mixtures should exhibit either one or both consolute temperatures however, the lower consolute temperature may be obscured by the freezing of the mixture, and the upper consolute temperature will not be observed if it is above the bubble point temperature of the mixture, as vaporization will have instead occurred. ... 

Although by starting with Eq. 11.2-2 one can proceed directly to the calculation of the liquid-liquid phase equilibrium state, this equation does not provide in.sight into the reason that phase separation and critical solution temperature behavior occur. To obtain this insight it is necessary to study the Gibbs energy versus composition diagram for various mixtures. For an ideal binary mixture, we have (Table 9.3-1)... 

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