Fugacity ideal

The text by A. M. Mearns Chemical Engineering Process Analysis, Oliver Boyd, Edinburgh, 1973, p. 96) indicates that at 1073 K, = 1.644 X 10 and Kn = 1.015 for standard states of unit fugacity. Ideal gas behavior may be assumed. 

Standard states are taken as the gases at unit fugacity. Ideal gas behavior may be assumed. Do not use any thermochemical data other than those given above. Remember to allow for the variation in the heat of reaction with temperature. 

FUGACITY, IDEAL SOLUTIONS, ACTIVITY, ACTIVITY COEFFICIENT... 

The derivation of the various relations involving fugacity, ideal solutions, activity, and activity coefficients covers several pages with mathematics. Professors and graduate students enjoy that, but most undergraduates do not. For that reason most of that mathematics is placed in this appendix, so that the discussion in Chapter 7 can flow more easily. The pertinent results of that mathematics are transferred from here to Chapter 7. 

In vapor-liquid equilibria, it is relatively easy to start the iteration because assumption of ideal behavior (Raoult s law) provides a reasonable zeroth approximation. By contrast, there is no obvious corresponding method to start the iteration calculation for liquid-liquid equilibria. Further, when two liquid phases are present, we must calculate for each component activity coefficients in two phases since these are often strongly nonlinear functions of compositions, liquid-liquid equilibrium calculations are highly sensitive to small changes in composition. In vapor-liquid equilibria at modest pressures, this sensitivity is lower because vapor-phase fugacity coefficients are usually close to unity and only weak functions of composition. For liquid-liquid equilibria, it is therefore more difficult to construct a numerical iteration procedure that converges both rapidly and consistently. 

At pressures to a few bars, the vapor phase is at a relatively low density, i.e., on the average, the molecules interact with one another less strongly than do the molecules in the much denser liquid phase. It is therefore a common simplification to assume that all the nonideality in vapor-liquid systems exist in the liquid phase and that the vapor phase can be treated as an ideal gas. This leads to the simple result that the fugacity of component i is given by its partial pressure, i.e. the product of y, the mole fraction of i in the vapor, and P, the total pressure. A somewhat less restrictive simplification is the Lewis fugacity rule which sets the fugacity of i in the vapor mixture proportional to its mole fraction in the vapor phase the constant of proportionality is the fugacity of pure i vapor at the temperature and pressure of the mixture. These simplifications are attractive because they make the calculation of vapor-liquid equilibria much easier the K factors = i i ... 

Unfortunately, the ideal-gas assumption can sometimes lead to serious error. While errors in the Lewis rule are often less, that rule has inherent in it the problem of evaluating the fugacity of a fictitious substance since at least one of the condensable components cannot, in general, exist as pure vapor at the temperature and pressure of the mixture. 

Figures 3 and 4 show fugacity coefficients for two binary systems calculated with Equation (10b). Although the pressure is not large, deviations from ideality and from the Lewis rule are not negligible.

The virial equation is appropriate for describing deviations from ideality in those systems where moderate attractive forces yield fugacity coefficients not far removed from unity. The systems shown in Figures 2, 3, and 4 are of this type. However, in systems containing carboxylic acids, there prevails an entirely different physical situation since two acid molecules tend to form a pair of stable hydrogen bonds, large negative... 

Figure 3-7. Fugacity coefficients for a saturated mixture of propionic acid (1) and raethylisobutylketone (2). Calculations based on chemical method show large variations from ideal behavior.

A component in a vapor mixture exhibits nonideal behavior as a result of molecular interactions only when these interactions are very wea)c or very infrequent is ideal behavior approached. The fugacity coefficient (fi is a measure of nonideality and a departure of < ) from unity is a measure of the extent to which a molecule i interacts with its neighbors. The fugacity coefficient depends on pressure, temperature, and vapor composition this dependence, in the moderate pressure region covered by the truncated virial equation, is usually as follows ... 

Enthalpies are referred to the ideal vapor. The enthalpy of the real vapor is found from zero-pressure heat capacities and from the virial equation of state for non-associated species or, for vapors containing highly dimerized vapors (e.g. organic acids), from the chemical theory of vapor imperfections, as discussed in Chapter 3. For pure components, liquid-phase enthalpies (relative to the ideal vapor) are found from differentiation of the zero-pressure standard-state fugacities these, in turn, are determined from vapor-pressure data, from vapor-phase corrections and liquid-phase densities. If good experimental data are used to determine the standard-state fugacity, the derivative gives enthalpies of liquids to nearly the same precision as that obtained with calorimetric data, and provides reliable heats of vaporization. 

If the data are correlated assuming an ideal vapor, the reference fugacity is just the vapor pressure, P , the Poynting correction is neglected, and fugacity coefficient is assumed to be unity. Equation (2) then becomes... 

The values of the thermodynamic properties of the pure substances given in these tables are, for the substances in their standard states, defined as follows For a pure solid or liquid, the standard state is the substance in the condensed phase under a pressure of 1 atm (101 325 Pa). For a gas, the standard state is the hypothetical ideal gas at unit fugacity, in which state the enthalpy is that of the real gas at the same temperature and at zero pressure. 

At equilibrium, a component of a gas in contact with a liquid has identical fugacities in both the gas and liquid phase. For ideal solutions Raoult s law applies ... 

The fugacity coefficient of thesolid solute dissolved in the fluid phase (0 ) has been obtained using cubic equations of state (52) and statistical mechanical perturbation theory (53). The enhancement factor, E, shown as the quantity ia brackets ia equation 2, is defined as the real solubiUty divided by the solubihty ia an ideal gas. The solubiUty ia an ideal gas is simply the vapor pressure of the sohd over the pressure. Enhancement factors of 10 are common for supercritical systems. Notable exceptions such as the squalane—carbon dioxide system may have enhancement factors greater than 10. Solubihty data can be reduced to a simple form by plotting the logarithm of the enhancement factor vs density, resulting ia a fairly linear relationship (52). 

The definition of fugacity is completed by setting the ideal gas state fugacity of pure species / equal to its pressure ... 

The definition of fugacity of a species in solution is parallel to the definition of pure species fugacity. Equation 154 is analogous to the ideal gas expression ... 

Thus the fugacity of species / in an ideal gas mixture is equal to its partial pressure. 

A simple equation for the fugacity of a species in an ideal solution follows from equation 190. Written for the special case of species / in an ideal solution, equation 160 becomes equation 195 ... 

This equation, known as the Lewis-RandaH rule, appHes to each species in an ideal solution at all conditions of temperature, pressure, and composition. It shows that the fugacity of each species in an ideal solution is proportional to its mole fraction the proportionaUty constant is the fugacity of pure species i in the same physical state as the solution and at the same T and P. Ideal solution behavior is often approximated by solutions comprised of molecules similar in size and of the same chemical nature. 

The supeisciipt lefeis to the ideal-gas secondary reference state, andp is the fugacity. Equation 4 is used for the ionic species. Hence,... 

Limiting L ws. Simple laws that tend to describe a narrow range of behavior of real fluids and substances, and which contain few, if any, adjustable parameters are called limiting laws. Models of this type include the ideal gas law equation of state and the Lewis-RandaH fugacity rule (10). 

The origin of the fugacity concept resides in Eq. (4-72), an equation vahd only for pure species i in the ideal gas state. For a real fluid, an analogous equation is written ... 

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