Real mixtures

If a mixture is not ideal, we can write an expression for the chemical potential of each component that includes an activity coefficient. The expression is like one of those for the ideal case (Eqs. 9.5.4-9.5.9) with the activity coefficient multiplying the quantity within the logarithm. 

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For components of a condensed-phase mixture, we write expressions for the chemical potential having a form similar to that in Eq. 9.5.10, with the composition variable now multiplied by an activity coefficient  

The activity coefficient of a species is a dimensionless quantity whose value depends on the temperature, the pressure, the mixture composition, and the choice of the reference state for the species. Under conditions in which the mixture behaves ideally, the activity coefficient is unity and the chemical potential is given by one of the expressions of Eqs. 9.5.4-9.5.9 otherwise, the activity coefficient has the value that gives the actual chemical potential. 

This book will use various symbols for activity coefficients, as indicated in the following list of expressions for the chemical potentials of nonelectrolytes  

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Sengers and coworkers (1999) have made calculations for the coexistence curve and the heat capacity of the real fluid SF and the real mixture 3-methylpentane + nitroethane and the agreement with experiment is excellent their comparison for the mixture [28] is shown in figure A2.5.28. 

The values of n and the corresponding N which are necessary to resolve 50-90% of the constituents of a mixture of 100 compounds are listed in Table 1.5, thus making clear the limitations of one-dimensional chromatography. For example, to resolve over 80 % of the 100 compounds by GC would require a column generating 2.4 million plates, which would be approximately 500 m long for a conventional internal diameter of 250 p.m. For real mixtures, the situation is even less favourable to resolve, for example, 80 % the components of a mixture containing all possible 209 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBS) would require over lO plates. 

V = V . In such a case, V can be obtained directly from the ideal gas law, without recourse to measurement, and hence, the volumetric composition can be readily computed. On the other hand, in non-ideal (i.e., real) mixtures and solutions,... 

The excess molar thermodynamic function Z is defined as the difference in the property Zm for a real mixture and that for an ideal solution. That is,... 

Such a rough comparison of real mixtures with ideal solutions is definitely not perfect but it allows the authors of [230] to proceed using conventional theory. The general conclusion following this comparison is that the quantum. /-diffusion model just slightly differs from its... 

In real mixtures and solutions, the chemical potential ceases to be a linear function of the logarithm of the partial pressure or mole fraction. Consequently, a different approach is usually adopted. The simple form of the equations derived for ideal systems is retained for real systems, but a different quantity a, called the activity (or fugacity for real gases), is... 

Hyperbola segments described by eqn. (51) for two sets of values of and h are shown in Fig. 5. Values of g and h for a specific reaction process can be obtained using methods described by Waterman [29]. For real mixtures, values of x and y must both lie between 0 and 1 also, x + y < 1. Therefore, only those segments of the curve which lie within the triangle shown in Fig. 5 have physical meaning. Graphical procedures similar to these have been used to describe a wide variety of chemical processes [29]. The values of g and h in eqn. (51) apply to a particular type of reactor. 

Most polymer blends are, however, composed of incompatible polymers the blend is then a dispersion rather than a real mixture, both components retain their own individuality. In such a case, each of the two polymers shows its own glass transition. 

Figure 3.7. Glass-rubber transitions with real mixtures (left) and with dispersions (right).

In most cases polymer pairs are immiscible. Dispersions occur most often, real mixtures are exceptions. 

The model by Chesnut208>, the earliest one which appeared in the literature, simply explains the interaction term T by lattice strains. Suppose q s and qfts are equilibrium lattice constants of the pure LS and HS lattice, resp., and q the lattice constant of the real mixture of the spin isomers, then... 

Since pf is a function of temperature, the dewpoint and bubble-point temperatures for an ideal vapor or liquid mixture can be determined as a function of the total pressure tr from Eq. (9) or (10), respectively. An analogous procedure can be used for real mixtures, but the nonidealities of the liquid and vapor phases must be accounted for. 

Suppose T = 300 K and P = 5 bar. The preceding condition then requires < 12 > 9977 cm3 mol-1 for vapor-phase immiscibility. Such large positive values for < 12 are unknown for real mixtures. (Examples of gas/gas equilibria are known, but at conditions outside the range of applicability of the two-term virial EOS.)... 

It is useful at this point to realize that with the composition of the stationary phase being a continuous variable and with retention and selectivity being strong functions of temperature, the optimum composition may also be expected to vary with temperature. Ideally therefore, temperature and stationary phase composition should be optimized simultaneously (see section 5.1.1). Moreover, once different lengths of columns with the individual stationary phases are applied instead of real mixtures, it is in theory feasible to optimize the temperature of each of the columns, as well as the ratio of column lengths simultaneously. 

For an ideal mixture, the enthalpy of mixing is zero and so a measured molar enthalpy of mixing is the excess value, HE. The literature concerning HE -values is more extensive than for GE-values because calorimetric measurements are more readily made. The dependence of HE on temperature yields the excess molar heat capacity, while combination of HE and GE values yields SE, the molar excess entropy of mixing. The dependences of GE, HE and T- SE on composition are conveniently summarized in the same diagram. The definition of an ideal mixture also requires that the molar volume is given by the sum, Xj V + x2 V2, so that the molar volume of a real mixture can be expressed in terms of an excess molar volume VE (Battino, 1971). 

After the seminal work of Guggenheim on the quasichemical approximation of the lattice statistical-mechanical theory[l], various practical thermodynamic models such as excess Gibbs energies[2-3] and equations of state[4-5] were proposed. However, the quasichemical approximation of the Guggenheim combinatory yields exact solution only for pure fluid systems. Therefore one has to resort to numerical procedures to find the solution that is analytically applicable to real mixtures. Thus, in this study we present a new unified group contribution equation of state[GC-EOS] which is applicable for both pure or mixed state fluids with emphasis on the high pressure systems[6,7]. 

A disadvantage of the (LF) theory is the prediction of AV from the close-packed densities. Most of the hard core densities, q, predicted by the (LF) theory are about 10% smaller than their known crystalline densities, which is most probably due to the packing factor of the lattice. There have been few applications of this theory to a real mixture, but from the work done by Sanchez it seems that the introduction of an entropy correction factor into the model is inevitable if it is going to be appUed to a system with specific interactions. 

The total excess free energy, which corresponds to the part of the free energy function which arises from ionic interactions in the real mixture is therefore... 

In order to show that the model of independent, coexistent continua represents correctly a real mixture of gases composed of different chemical species, we must compare the results obtained from this model with those of the kinetic theory of nonuniform gas mixtures (see Appendix D). Quantities such as the density p, the mass-weighted average velocity v j, and the body force fj have obviously analogous meanings in both the kinetic theory and the coexistent-continua model. On the other hand, the precise kinetic-theory meaning of terms such as the stress tensor, the absolute internal energy per unit mass and the heat-flux vector qf is not immediately apparent. In view of the known success of continuum theory for one-com-... 

The new method eliminates the above inconsistencies It provides a zero excess for pure components, and excesses (or deficits) which satisfy the volume conservation condition (for both ideal and real mixtures). The derived eq 13 allows one to calculate the excess (or deficit) for an ideal binary mixture (Figure 1) and shows that they become zero only when the molar volumes of the components are equal. 

There are additional erroneous comments in the Ben-Naim paper that are less relevant. Let us mention one of them. He is not accurate in attributing to us the claim that a negative KB I is not plausible . We have not made such an assertion. On the contrary, we provided several examples of real mixtures for which aU the KBIs are negative. We use such examples because they show that Ben-Naim s eq 1 can provide negative values for aU of the excesses around any central molecule, and we said that this is not plausible. 

Of course, for real mixtures the left hand side of Eq. (11) is not exactly equal to zero it has certain finite values even for very accurate data. Let us denote that value with D. McDermott and Ellis (McDermott and Ellis, 1965) suggested that the vapor-liquid equilibrium data in a ternary mixture are thermodynamically consistent if D for Eq. (6) is smaller than Dmax = 0.01. Now we should find the value of Dmax for the solubility of poorly soluble substances in mixed solvents for Eq. (11). Of course, this value should differ from that for the vapor-liquid equilibrium. 

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