Phase diagrams carbon

Early in the development of the Phase Diagram Carbon Sequestration activity, a decision was made about which type of activity should be used learning cycle vs. application. Both activity types were possible. To create a learning cycle activity, the students would be provided with a set of data that included temperatures, pressures and states of matter. Through a series of critical... 

Figure 2. Model 3 from Phase Diagram Carbon Sequestration activity.

Table 2. Incorporated into Critical Thinking Questions Relating to Model 4 in Phase Diagram Carbon Sequestration Activity...

Figure 5. Model 2 in Phase Diagrams Carbon Sequestration activity. Reproduced with permission from Ref. (18). 2012, W.H. Freeman and Company.

One can effectively reduce the tliree components to two with quasibinary mixtures in which the second component is a mixture of very similar higher hydrocarbons. Figure A2.5.31 shows a phase diagram [40] calculated from a generalized van der Waals equation for mixtures of ethane n = 2) with nomial hydrocarbons of different carbon number n.2 (treated as continuous). It is evident that, for some values of the parameter n, those to the left of the tricritical point at = 16.48, all that will be observed with increasing... 

The locations of the tietriangle and biaodal curves ia the phase diagram depead oa the molecular stmctures of the amphiphile and oil, on the concentration of cosurfactant and/or electrolyte if either of these components is added, and on the temperature (and, especially for compressible oils such as propane or carbon dioxide, on the pressure (29,30)). Unfortunately for the laboratory worker, only by measuriag (or correcdy estimatiag) the compositions of T, Af, and B can one be certain whether a certain pair of Hquid layers are a microemulsion and conjugate aqueous phase, a microemulsion and oleic phase, or simply a pair of aqueous and oleic phases. 

Fig. 1. Iron—carbon phase diagram, where a is the body-centered cubic (bcc) a-iron, y is the face-centered cubic y-iron, and Fe C is iron carbide(3 l)...

When a steel is cooled sufficiendy rapidly from the austenite region to a low (eg, 25°C) temperature, the austenite decomposes into a nonequilihrium phase not shown on the phase diagram. This phase, called martensite, is body-centered tetragonal. It is the hardest form of steel, and its formation is critical in hardening. To form martensite, the austenite must be cooled sufficiently rapidly to prevent the austenite from first decomposing to the softer stmeture of a mixture of ferrite and carbide. Martensite begins to form upon reaching a temperature called the martensite start, Af, and is completed at a lower temperature, the martensite finish, Mj, These temperatures depend on the carbon and alloy content of the particular steel. 

Fig. 5. Schematic illustiation of the inciease in caibon content with caibutizing time. The maximum caibon content at the surface is given by the saturation value, (a) Phase diagram (b) plot of carbon content under the surface where the arrow represents increasing time at temperature (9).

Heat Treatment of Steel. Steels are alloys having up to about 2% carbon in iron plus other alloying elements. The vast application of steels is mainly owing to their ability to be heat treated to produce a wide spectmm of properties. This occurs because of a crystallographic or aHotropic transformation which takes place upon quenching. This transformation and its role in heat treatment can be explained by the crystal stmcture of iron and by the appropriate phase diagram for steels (see Steel). 

A phase diagram depicting the solubiUty of potassium carbonate in water is shown in Eigure 6. SolubiUties in the system... 

Phase Behavior. One of the pioneering works detailing the phase behavior of ternary systems of carbon dioxide was presented ia the early 1950s (12) and consists of a compendium of the solubiHties of over 260 compounds ia Hquid (21—26°C) carbon dioxide. This work contains 268 phase diagrams for ternary systems. Although the data reported are for Hquid CO2 at its vapor pressure, they yield a first approximation to solubiHties that may be encountered ia the supercritical region. Various additional sources of data are also available (1,4,7,13). 

A phase diagram for the carbon—sihcon system and for the relationship between temperature and solubihty of carbon in sihcon has been determined... 

Fig. 1. Carbon-phase diagram where A, solvent-cataly2ed diamond growth B—G, diamond formation direcdy from graphite C, graphite formation from diamond, D, approximate region where formation of Lonsdaleite occurs from weU-ordered graphite crystals (7,8). To convert GPa to atm, multiply by...

Carbon disulfide is completely miscible with many hydrocarbons, alcohols, and chlorinated hydrocarbons (9,13). Phosphoms (14) and sulfur are very soluble in carbon disulfide. Sulfur reaches a maximum solubiUty of 63% S at the 60°C atmospheric boiling point of the solution (15). SolubiUty data for carbon disulfide in Hquid sulfur at a CS2 partial pressure of 101 kPa (1 atm) and a phase diagram for the sulfur—carbon disulfide system have been published (16). Vapor—Hquid equiHbrium and freezing point data ate available for several binary mixtures containing carbon disulfide (9). 

Figure 6.3 The iron-carbon phase diagram showing the alternative production of iron and cementite from the liquid alloy, which occurs in practice, to the equilibrium production of graphite...

We can find a good example of this diffusion-controlled growth in plain carbon steels. As we saw in the "Teaching Yourself Phase Diagrams" course, when steel is cooled below 723°C there is a driving force for the eutectoid reaction of... 

To make martensite in pure iron it has to be cooled very fast at about 10 °C s h Metals can only be cooled at such large rates if they are in the form of thin foils. How, then, can martensite be made in sizeable pieces of 0.8% carbon steel As we saw in the "Teaching Yourself Phase Diagrams" course, a 0.8% carbon steel is a "eutectoid" steel when it is cooled relatively slowly it transforms by diffusion into pearlite (the eutectoid mixture of a + FejC). The eutectoid reaction can only start when the steel has been cooled below 723°C. The nose of the C-curve occurs at = 525°C (Fig. 8.11), about 175°C lower than the nose temperature of perhaps 700°C for pure iron (Fig. 8.5). Diffusion is much slower at 525°C than it is at 700°C. As a result, a cooling rate of 200°C s misses the nose of the 1% curve and produces martensite. 

Carbon steels as received "off the shelf" have been worked at high temperature (usually by rolling) and have then been cooled slowly to room temperature ("normalised"). The room-temperature microstructure should then be close to equilibrium and can be inferred from the Fe-C phase diagram (Fig. 11.1) which we have already come across in the Phase Diagrams course (p. 342). Table 11.1 lists the phases in the Fe-FejC system and Table 11.2 gives details of the composite eutectoid and eutectic structures that occur during slow cooling. 

Fig. 11.1. The left-hand part of the iron-carbon phase diagram. There ore five phases in the Fe-FejC system L, 5, y, or and Fe3C (see Table 1 1.1).

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