Liquid composite compression

When a homogeneous liquid phase is in equilibrium with a vapor, T and P are the same in both phases. In such a case when the EOS is solved at a selected T, and P, and composition, three volume roots are obtained at temperatures less than the critical temperature. For the liquid phase, the liquid composition must be used, and the smallest of the volume roots is taken as the solution. The compressibility factor Z is then calculated with that root. If the vapor composition is used, the largest root for the volume is used. 

Pillai, K. M., Tucker, C. L. and Phelan, F. R., Numerical simulation of injection/ compression liquid composite molding. Part 2 Preform compression . Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing, 32(2), 207-220, 2001. 

Gas is produced to surface separators which are used to extract the heavier ends of the mixture (typically the components). The dry gas is then compressed and reinjected into the reservoir to maintain the pressure above the dew point. As the recycling progresses the reservoir composition becomes leaner (less heavy components), until eventually it is not economic to separate and compress the dry gas, at which point the reservoir pressure is blown down as for a wet gas reservoir. The sales profile for a recycling scheme consists of early sales of condensate liquids and delayed sale of gas. An alternative method of keeping the reservoir above the dew point but avoiding the deferred gas sales is by water injection. 

The economic value of natural gas is primarily determined by the thermal energy it contains, which is expressed in British thermal units (Btu) or calorific value (CV). Other important physical properties comprise the liquid content, the burning characteristics, the dew point and the compressibility. In order to enable the calculation of these properties from its composition, a natural gas analysis should contain a detailed determination of all of the individual components, even in the low-concentration range. 

Chueh s method for calculating partial molar volumes is readily generalized to liquid mixtures containing more than two components. Required parameters are and flb (see Table II), the acentric factor, the critical temperature and critical pressure for each component, and a characteristic binary constant ktj (see Table I) for each possible unlike pair in the mixture. At present, this method is restricted to saturated liquid solutions for very precise work in high-pressure thermodynamics, it is also necessary to know how partial molar volumes vary with pressure at constant temperature and composition. An extension of Chueh s treatment may eventually provide estimates of partial compressibilities, but in view of the many uncertainties in our present knowledge of high-pressure phase equilibria, such an extension is not likely to be of major importance for some time. 

Continued compression increases the pressure along the vertical dotted line. The compositions and amounts of the vapor and liquid phases continue to change along the liquid and vapor lines and the relative amounts change as required by the lever rule. When a pressure corresponding to point g is reached, the last drop of vapor condenses. Continued compression to a point such as h simply increases the total pressure exerted by the piston on the liquid. 

Point c is a critical point known as the upper critical end point (UCEP).y The temperature, Tc, where this occurs is known as the upper critical solution temperature (UCST) and the composition as the critical solution mole fraction, JC2,C- The phenomenon that occurs at the UCEP is in many ways similar to that which happens at the (liquid + vapor) critical point of a pure substance. For example, at a temperature just above Tc. critical opalescence occurs, and at point c, the coefficient of expansion, compressibility, and heat capacity become infinite. 

As mentioned earlier, the physical properties of a liquid mixture near a UCST have many similarities to those of a (liquid + gas) mixture at the critical point. For example, the coefficient of expansion and the compressibility of the mixture become infinite at the UCST. If one has a solution with a composition near that of the UCEP, at a temperature above the UCST, and cools it, critical opalescence occurs. This is followed, upon further cooling, by a cloudy mixture that does not settle into two phases because the densities of the two liquids are the same at the UCEP. Further cooling results in a density difference and separation into two phases occurs. Examples are known of systems in which the densities of the two phases change in such a way that at a temperature well below the UCST. the solutions connected by the tie-line again have the same density.bb When this occurs, one of the phases separates into a shapeless mass or blob that remains suspended in the second phase. The tie-lines connecting these phases have been called isopycnics (constant density). Isopycnics usually occur only at a specific temperature. Either heating or cooling the mixture results in density differences between the two equilibrium phases, and separation into layers occurs. 

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The time required to concentrate the sediment after it has reached the critical condition can be determined approximately by allowing a sample of the slurry at its critical composition to settle in a vertical glass tube, and measuring the time taken for the interface between the sediment and the clear liquid to fall to such a level that the concentration is that required in the underflow from the thickener. The use of data so obtained assumes that the average concentration in the sediment in the laboratory test is the same as that which would be obtained in the thickener after the same time. This is not quite so because, in the thickener, the various parts of the sediment have been under compression for different times. Further, it assumes that the time taken for the sediment to increase in concentration by a given amount is independent of its depth. 

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