Mixture virial equation

This chapter presents a general method for estimating nonidealities in a vapor mixture containing any number of components this method is based on the virial equation of state for ordinary substances and on the chemical theory for strongly associating species such as carboxylic acids. The method is limited to moderate pressures, as commonly encountered in typical chemical engineering equipment, and should only be used for conditions remote from the critical of the mixture. 

For a pure vapor the virial coefficients are functions only of temperature for a mixture they are also functions of composition. An important advantage of the virial equation is that there are theoretically valid relations between the virial coefficients of a mixture and its composition. These relations are ... 

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 ... 

To illustrate calculations for a binary system containing a supercritical, condensable component. Figure 12 shows isobaric equilibria for ethane-n-heptane. Using the virial equation for vapor-phase fugacity coefficients, and the UNIQUAC equation for liquid-phase activity coefficients, calculated results give an excellent representation of the data of Kay (1938). In this case,the total pressure is not large and therefore, the mixture is at all times remote from critical conditions. For this binary system, the particular method of calculation used here would not be successful at appreciably higher pressures. 

VPLQFT is a computer program for correlating binary vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data at low to moderate pressures. For such binary mixtures, the truncated virial equation of state is used to correct for vapor-phase nonidealities, except for mixtures containing organic acids where the "chemical" theory is used. The Hayden-0 Connell (1975) correlation gives either the second virial coefficients or the dimerization equilibrium constants, as required. 

Although PVT equations of state are based on data for pure fluids, they are frequently appHed to mixtures. 7h.e virial equations are unique in that rigorous expressions are known for the composition dependence of the virial coefficients. Statistical mechanics provide exact mixing rules which show that the nxh. virial coefficient of a mixture is nxh. degree in the mole fractions ... 

The MS closure results from s = 2. The HNC closure results from s = 1. In the latter two expressions, additional adjustable parameters occur, namely ( for the RY closure and for the BPGG version of the MS approximation. However, even when adjustable, these parameters cannot be chosen at will, as they should be chosen such that they eliminate the so-called thermodynamic inconsistency that plagues many approximate integral equations. We recall that a manifestation of this inconsistency is that there is a difference between the pressure as computed from the virial equation (10) and as computed from the compressibility equation (20). Note that these equations have been applied to a very asymmetric mixture of hard spheres [53,54]. Some results of the MS closure are plotted in Fig. 4. The MS result for y d) = g d) is about the same as the MV result. However, the MS result for y(0) is rather poor. Using a value between 1 and 2 improves y(0) but makes y d) worse. Overall, we believe the MS/BPGG is less satisfactory than the MV closure. 

The next level of approximation is valid to higher pressures. It assumes that the gas mixture obeys the virial equation of state, with the third, fourth and higher, virial coefficients equal to zero. Thus... 

Spycher, N. F. and M. H. Reed, 1988, Fugacity coefficients of H2, CO2, CH4, H2O and of H2O-CO2-CH4 mixtures, a virial equation treatment for moderate pressures and temperatures applicable to calculations of hydrothermal boiling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 52, 739-749. 

Its precise basis in statistical mechanics makes the virial equation of state a powerful tool for prediction and correlation of thermodynamic properties involving fluids and fluid mixtures. Within the study of mixtures, the interaction second virial coefficient occupies an important position because of its relationship to the interaction potential between unlike molecules. On a more practical basis, this coefficient is useful in developing predictive correlations for mixture properties. 

Hm for steam + n-heptane calculated by the above method is shown by the dashed lines in figure 6. Considering the simplicity of the model and the fact that no adjustable parameters have been used, agreement with experiment is remarkable. For mixtures of steam + n-hexane, benzene and cyclohexane agreement with experiment is much the same. At low densities the model reproduces the curvature of the lines through the results better than the virial equation of state. The method fails to fully reproduce the downward turn of the experimental curves at pressures near saturation, but does marginally better in this region than the P-R equation with k. = -0.3. At supercritical temperatures the model seems to... 

Flow calorimetric measurements of the excess enthalpy of a steam + n-heptane mixture over the temperature range 373 to 698 K and at pressures up to 12.3 MPa are reported. The low pressure measurements are analysed in terms of the virial equation of state using an association model. An extension of this approach, the Separated Associated Fluid Interaction Model, fits the measurements at high pressures reasonably well. 

The mutual dependence of the pressure, volume, and temperature of a substance is described by its equation of state. Many such equations have been proposed for the description of the actual properties of substances (and mixtures) in the gaseous and liquid states. The van der Waals expression is just one of these and of limited applicability. The virial equation of state ... 

The thermodynamic functions for the gas phase are more easily developed than for the liquid or solid phases, because the temperature-pressure-volume relations can be expressed, at least for low pressures, by an algebraic equation of state. For this reason the thermodynamic functions for the gas phase are developed in this chapter before discussing those for the liquid and solid phases in Chapter 8. First the equation of state for pure ideal gases and for mixtures of ideal gases is discussed. Then various equations of state for real gases, both pure and mixed, are outlined. Finally, the more general thermodynamic functions for the gas phase are developed in terms of the experimentally observable quantities the pressure, the volume, the temperature, and the mole numbers. Emphasis is placed on the virial equation of state accurate to the second virial coefficient. However, the methods used are applicable to any equation of state, and the development of the thermodynamic functions for any given equation of state should present no difficulty. 

Dymond and Smith [11] give an excellent compilation of virial coefficients of gases and mixtures. Cholinski et al. [12] provide second virial coefficient data for individual organic compounds and binary systems. The latter book also discusses various correlational methods for calculating second virial coefficients. Mason and Spurling [13] have written an informative monograph on the virial equation of state. 

The virial equation of state discussed in Section 7.2 is applicable to gas mixtures with the condition that n represents the total moles of the gas mixture that is, n = f= l n,. The constants and coefficients then become functions of the mole fractions. These functions can be determined experimentally, and actually the pressure-volume-temperature properties of some binary mixtures and a few ternary mixtures have been studied. However, sometimes it is necessary to estimate the properties of gas mixtures from those of the pure gases. This is accomplished through the combination of constants. 

Two further crude approximations have been used for the virial equation of state. The first is that the virial coefficients combine linearly. This combination of constants results in an equation of state that is additive in the properties of the pure components. In such a mixture Dalton s and Amagat s laws still hold, and the mixture may be called an ideal mixture of real gases. The assumption is probably the crudest that can be used and is... 

Ternary diagram calculated using osmotic virial equation Figure 3. Two-phase aqueous extraction system for separating a mixture of biomolecules. 

The virial equation is written for a gas mixture exactly species. Thus Eq. (3.31),... 

The application of cubic equations of state to mixtures requires that the equation-of-state parameters be expressed as functions of composition. No exact theory like that for the virial equations prescribes this composition dependence, and we rely instead on empirical mixing rules to provide approximate relation-... 

Although we have omitted an identifying subscript in the preceding equations, their application so far has been to the development of generated correlations for pure gases only. In the remainder of this section we show how the virial equation may be generalized to allow calculation of fugacity coefficients < , of species in gas mixtures. 

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Milner s contribution (1912) was direct. He attempted to find out the virial equation for a mixture of ions. However. Milner s statistical mechanical approach lacked the mathematical simplicity of the ionic-cloud model of Debye and Hiickel and proved too unwieldy to yield a general solution testable by experiment. Nevertheless, his contribution was a seminal one in that for the first time the behavior of an ionic solution had been linked mathematically to the interionic forces. 

Due to lack of space, the few results presented here are primarily intended to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method. The pore space of the adsorbent is assumed to consist of slit-shaped pores of width 15 A, with parameters chosen to model activated carbon. The porosity values are fixed at q = 0.45 and qp = 0.6. The feed stream is atemary gas mixture of H2/CH4/C2H6. The vtqx>r-phase fugacities were computed from the virial equation to second order, using coefficients taken from Reid et al ... 

In this section we introduce several more complex but more accurate equations of state for single species the virial equation, the van der Waals equation, and the Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation. In Section 5.4 we introduce another approach to nonideal gas analysis that makes use of compressibility factors, and we describe Kay s rule, a method for performing PVT calculations on gas mixtures. 

Other forms of the virial equation of state have been developed for specific compounds and mixtures. For example, the Benedict-Webb-Rubin (BWR) equation, which has eight empirical constants, has been used extensively for light hydrocarbons and other nonpolar gases. Perry s Chemical Engineers Handbook (see footnote 2) describes the BWR equation of state and gives the eight constants for a number of gases on pp. 3-270 to 3-272. 

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