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The data base contains provisions for a simple augmentation by up to eight additional compounds or substitution of other compounds for those included. Binary interaction parameters necessary for calculation of fugacities in liquid mixtures are presently available for 180 pairs. 

For such components, as the composition of the solution approaches that of the pure liquid, the fugacity becomes equal to the mole fraction multiplied by the standard-state fugacity. In this case,the standard-state fugacity for component i is the fugacity of pure liquid i at system temperature T. In many cases all the components in a liquid mixture are condensable and Equation (13) is therefore used for all components in this case, since all components are treated alike, the normalization of activity coefficients is said to follow the symmetric convention. ... 

If we vary the composition of a liquid mixture over all possible composition values at constant temperature, the equilibrium pressure does not remain constant. Therefore, if integrated forms of the Gibbs-Duhem equation [Equation (16)] are used to correlate isothermal activity coefficient data, it is necessary that all activity coefficients be evaluated at the same pressure. Unfortunately, however, experimentally obtained isothermal activity coefficients are not all at the same pressure and therefore they must be corrected from the experimental total pressure P to the same (arbitrary) reference pressure designated P. This may be done by the rigorous thermodynamic relation at constant temperature and composition ... 

To predict vapor-liquid or liquid-liquid equilibria in multicomponent systems, we require a method for calculating the fugacity of a component i in a liquid mixture. At system temperature T and system pressure P, this fugacity is written as a product of three terms... 

Figure 4-20. Quarternary examples of three types of multi-component liquid-liquid mixtures.

In Equation (15), the third term is much more important than the second term. The third term gives the enthalpy of the ideal liquid mixture (corrected to zero pressure) relative to that of the ideal vapor at the same temperature and composition. The second term gives the excess enthalpy, i.e. the liquid-phase enthalpy of mixing often little basis exists for evaluation of this term, but fortunately its contribution to total liquid enthalpy is usually not large. 

For many liquid mixtures. Equation (19) can be used to provide a crude estimate of excess enthalpy. A much better estimate is obtained if the UNIQUAC parameters are considered temperature-dependent. For example, suppose Equations (4-9) and (4-10) are modified to = + k /t... 

For liquid mixtures containing both condensable and noncondensable components. Equation (15) is applicable. However it is now convenient to rewrite that equation. Neglecting, as before, the last term in Equation (15), we obtain ... 

Gas-liquid mixtures are sometimes reacted in packed beds. The gas and the liquid usually flow cocurrently. Such trickle-bed reactors have the advantage that residence times of the liquid are shorter than in countercurrent operation. This can be useful in avoiding unwanted side reactions. 

Figure 3.1a shows a flash drum used to separate by gravity a vapor-liquid mixture. The velocity of the vapor through the flash drum must be less than the settling velocity of the liquid drops. Figure 3.11) shows a simple gravity settler for removing a... 

Flotation. Flotation is a gravity separation process which exploits differences in the surface properties of particles. Gas bubbles are generated in a liquid and become attached to solid particles or immiscible liquid droplets, causing the particles or droplets to rise to the surface. This is used to separate mixtures of solid-solid particles and liquid-liquid mixtures of finely divided immiscible droplets. It is an important technique in mineral processing, where it is used to separate different types of ore. 

Figure 3.5 shows centrifuges in which a cylindrical bowl is rotated to produce the centrifugal force. In Fig. 3.5a, the cylindrical bowl is shown rotating with a feed consisting of a solid-liquid mixture admitted at the center. The feed is immediately thrown outward toward the walls of the container. The particles settle horizontally... 

Some small amount of byproduct formation occurs. The principal byproduct is di-isopropyl ether. The reactor product is cooled, and a phase separation of the resulting vapor-liquid mixture produces a vapor containing predominantly propylene and propane and a liquid containing predominantly the other components. Unreacted propylene is recycled to the reactor, and a purge prevents the buildup of propane. The first distillation in Fig. 10.3a (column Cl) removes... 

The reactants dissolve and immediately begin to react to form further dichloroethane. The reaction is essentially complete at a point only two-thirds up the rising leg. As the liquid continues to rise, boiling begins, and finally, the vapor-liquid mixture enters the disengagement drum. A very slight excess of ethylene ensures essentially 100 percent conversion of chlorine. 

Many liquid mixtures exhibit a minimum boiling point (e.g. methanol and chloroform -propanol and water) whilst others show a... 

Liquid chromatography is a separation technique based on the selective adsorption on a solid, siiica or alumina for example, or a mixture of the two, of the different components of a liquid mixture. 

The principle of corresponding states enables the enthalpy of a liquid mixture to be expressed starting from that of an ideal gas mixture and a reduced correction for enthalpy ... 

It was noted in connection with Eq. III-56 that molecular dynamics calculations can be made for a liquid mixture of rare gas-like atoms to obtain surface tension versus composition. The same calculation also gives the variation of density for each species across the interface [88], as illustrated in Fig. Ill-13b. The density profiles allow a calculation, of course, of the surface excess quantities. 

Contact angle will vary with liquid composition, often in a regular way as illustrated in Fig. X-13 (see also Ref. 136). Li, Ng, and Neumann have studied the contact angles of binary liquid mixtures on teflon and found that the equation of state that describes... 

The discussion so far has been confined to systems in which the solute species are dilute, so that adsorption was not accompanied by any significant change in the activity of the solvent. In the case of adsorption from binary liquid mixtures, where the complete range of concentration, from pure liquid A to pure liquid B, is available, a more elaborate analysis is needed. The terms solute and solvent are no longer meaningful, but it is nonetheless convenient to cast the equations around one of the components, arbitrarily designated here as component 2. 

Fig. XI-11. Relation of adsorption from binary liquid mixtures to the separate vapor pressure adsorption isotherms, system ethanol-benzene-charcoal (n) separate mixed-vapor isotherms (b) calculated and observed adsorption from liquid mixtures. (From Ref. 143.)...

Hirschfelder J C, Curtiss C F and Bird R B 1954 Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids (New York Wiley) Rowlinson J and Swinton J 1983 Liquids and Liquid Mixtures 3rd edn (London Butterworth)... 

Phase transitions in binary systems, nomially measured at constant pressure and composition, usually do not take place entirely at a single temperature, but rather extend over a finite but nonzero temperature range. Figure A2.5.3 shows a temperature-mole fraction T, x) phase diagram for one of the simplest of such examples, vaporization of an ideal liquid mixture to an ideal gas mixture, all at a fixed pressure, (e.g. 1 atm). Because there is an additional composition variable, the sample path shown in tlie figure is not only at constant pressure, but also at a constant total mole fraction, here chosen to be v = 1/2. 

Nearly all experimental eoexistenee eurves, whether from liquid-gas equilibrium, liquid mixtures, order-disorder in alloys, or in ferromagnetie materials, are far from parabolie, and more nearly eubie, even far below the eritieal temperature. This was known for fluid systems, at least to some experimentalists, more than one hundred years ago. Versehaflfelt (1900), from a eareflil analysis of data (pressure-volume and densities) on isopentane, eoneluded that the best fit was with p = 0.34 and 8 = 4.26, far from the elassieal values. Van Laar apparently rejeeted this eonelusion, believing that, at least very elose to the eritieal temperature, the eoexistenee eurve must beeome parabolie. Even earlier, van der Waals, who had derived a elassieal theory of eapillarity with a surfaee-tension exponent of 3/2, found (1893)... 

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