The osmotic coefficient

Another function, the osmotic coefficient, has been used in place of the excess chemical potential or the activity coefficient. It is a multiplicative factor rather than additive, and is defined in terms of the chemical potential of the solvent. Two such functions are used, one based on molalities and the other on molarities. The first is defined, except for its absolute value, by 

The definition is completed by assigning a value to j m and (f c in some reference state. To conform with the definitions made in Sections 8.9 and 8.10, the infinitely dilute solution with respect to all molalities or molarities is usually used as the reference state at all temperatures and pressures, and both f m and f c are made to approach unity as the sum of the molalities or molarities of the solutes approaches zero. The standard state of the solvent is again the pure solvent, and is identical to its reference state in all of its thermodynamic functions. 

Still another function which is used, especially in connexion with electrolyte solutions, is the osmotic coefficient of the solvent. This is simply a logarithmic function of the activity coefficient, as already defined, but it is useful whenever the activity coefficient of the solvent differs from unity by only a very small amount. For example, in the case of dilute electrolyte solutions, the activity coefficient of the solvent may differ from unity by less than one part in 10, whilst the activity coefficient of the solute may differ from unity by several p er cent. In such cases it is desirable to use a function which results in a larger numerical measure of the departure of the solvent from ideality. 

The relation between g and the activity coefficient y of the solvent is obtained from equations (9 3) and (9 63) 

The osmotic coefficient g differs from unity by a much larger amount than does 70. The usefulness of in a region of concentration where y has a value of, say, 0 9999 will be apparent. 

The Bunsen absorption coefficient is the volume of a gas (reduced to 0 C and 1 atm) which dissolves in unit volume of a solvent when the partial pressure of the gas is 1 atm. Show that the Bunsen coefficient is proportional to the reciprocal of iC, as defined by equation (9 4), when the solution is dilute. 

The partial pressure of mercury above an amalgam with thallium in which its mole fraction (i.e. the Hg) is 0.497 is 43.3% of its value over pure mercury at the same temperature (326 C). Calculate the activity coefficient of the mercury in this solution. What is the change in free 

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As pointed out earlier, the contributions of the hard cores to the thennodynamic properties of the solution at high concentrations are not negligible. Using the CS equation of state, the osmotic coefficient of an uncharged hard sphere solute (in a continuum solvent) is given by... 

The themiodynamic properties calculated by different routes are different, since the MS solution is an approximation. The osmotic coefficient from the virial pressure, compressibility and energy equations are not the same. Of these, the energy equation is the most accurate by comparison with computer simulations of Card and Valleau [ ]. The osmotic coefficients from the virial and compressibility equations are... 

The solutions to this approximation are obtained numerically. Fast Fourier transfonn methods and a refomuilation of the FINC (and other integral equation approximations) in tenns of the screened Coulomb potential by Allnatt [M are especially useful in the numerical solution. Figure A2.3.12 compares the osmotic coefficient of a 1-1 RPM electrolyte at 25°C with each of the available Monte Carlo calculations of Card and Valleau [ ]. 

Figure A2.3.12 The osmotic coefficient of a 1-1 RPM electrolyte compared with the Monte Carlo results of...

The osmotic coefficients from the HNC approximation were calculated from the virial and compressibility equations the discrepancy between ([ly and ((ij is a measure of the accuracy of the approximation. The osmotic coefficients calculated via the energy equation in the MS approximation are comparable in accuracy to the HNC approximation for low valence electrolytes. Figure A2.3.15 shows deviations from the Debye-Htickel limiting law for the energy and osmotic coefficient of a 2-2 RPM electrolyte according to several theories. 

Figure A2.3.16. Theoretical HNC osmotic coefTicients for a range of ion size parameters in the primitive model compared with experimental data for the osmotic coefficients of several 1-1 electrolytes at 25°C. The curves are labelled according to the assumed value of a+- = r+ + r-...

Figure A2.3.17 Theoretical (HNC) calculations of the osmotic coefficients for the square well model of an electrolyte compared with experimental data for aqueous solutions at 25°C. The parameters for this model are a = r (Pauling)+ r (Pauling), d = d = 0 and d as indicated in the figure.

In principle, simulation teclmiques can be used, and Monte Carlo simulations of the primitive model of electrolyte solutions have appeared since the 1960s. Results for the osmotic coefficients are given for comparison in table A2.4.4 together with results from the MSA, PY and HNC approaches. The primitive model is clearly deficient for values of r. close to the closest distance of approach of the ions. Many years ago, Gurney [H] noted that when two ions are close enough together for their solvation sheaths to overlap, some solvent molecules become freed from ionic attraction and are effectively returned to the bulk [12]. 

The activity coefficient of water is related to the osmotic coefficient by the formula ... 

A form of equation (6.181) using the molality m instead of vt is often used. The osmotic coefficient expressed in terms of molality is given by... 

The osmotic coefficient is often used as a measure of the activity of the solvent instead of a because a is nearly unity over the concentration range where 7 is changing, and many significant figures are required to show the effect of solute concentration on a. The osmotic coefficient also becomes one at infinite dilution, but deviates more rapidly with concentration of solute than does a. ... 

The osmotic coefficient 4> and activity coefficient are related in a simple manner through the Gibbs-Duhem equation. We can find the relationship by writing this equation in a form that relates a and 2-... 

P7.5 The osmotic coefficients of aqueous CaCf solutions at 298.15 K are as follows ... 

Park has also obtained osmotic coefficient data for the aqueous solutions of NaOH-NaCl- NaAl(OH)4 at 25°C employing the isopiestic method (Park and Englezos, 1999 Park, 1999). The solutions were prepared by dissolving AlCl r6H20 in aqueous NaOH solutions. The osmotic coefficient data were then used to evaluate the unknown Pitzer s binary and mixing parameters for the NaOH-NaCI-NaAl(OH)4-H20 system. The binary Pitzer s parameters, [3(0), P0). and C9, for NaAI(OH)4 were found to be -0.0083, 0.0710, and 0.00184 respectively. These binary parameters were obtained from the data on the ternary system because it was not possible to prepare a single (NaAl(OH)4) solution. 

Using a constant error for the measurement of the osmotic coefficient, estimate Pitzer s parameters as well as the standard error of the parameter estimates by minimizing the objective function given by Equation 15.1 and compare the results with the reported parameters. 

Rard (1992) reported the results of isopiestic vapor-pressure measurements for the aqueous solution of high-purity NiCl2 solution form 1.4382 to 5.7199 mol/kg at 298.1510.005 K. Based on these measurements he calculated the osmotic coefficient of aqueous NiCb solutions. He also evaluated other data from the literature and finally presented a set of smoothed osmotic coefficient and activity of water data (see Table IV in original reference). 

The activity coefficient of the solvent remains close to unity up to quite high electrolyte concentrations e.g. the activity coefficient for water in an aqueous solution of 2 m KC1 at 25°C equals y0x = 1.004, while the value for potassium chloride in this solution is y tX = 0.614, indicating a quite large deviation from the ideal behaviour. Thus, the activity coefficient of the solvent is not a suitable characteristic of the real behaviour of solutions of electrolytes. If the deviation from ideal behaviour is to be expressed in terms of quantities connected with the solvent, then the osmotic coefficient is employed. The osmotic pressure of the system is denoted as jz and the hypothetical osmotic pressure of a solution with the same composition that would behave ideally as jt. The equations for the osmotic pressures jt and jt are obtained from the equilibrium condition of the pure solvent and of the solution. Under equilibrium conditions the chemical potential of the pure solvent, which is equal to the standard chemical potential at the pressure p, is equal to the chemical potential of the solvent in the solution under the osmotic pressure jt,... 

For a solution of a single electrolyte, the relationship between the mean activity coefficient and the osmotic coefficient is given by the equation... 

The osmotic pressure of an electrolyte solution jt can be considered as the ideal osmotic pressure jt decreased by the pressure jrel resulting from electric cohesion between ions. The work connected with a change in the concentration of the solution is n dV = jt dV — jrel dV. The electric part of this work is then JteldV = dWcl, and thus jzc] = (dWei/dV)T,n. The osmotic coefficient 0 is given by the ratio jt/jt, from which it follows that... 

For water at 0°C (the osmotic coefficient is mostly determined from cryoscopic measurements),... 

Thermodynamic methods also measure the activity coefficient of the solvent (it should be recalled that the activity coefficient of the solvent is directly related to the osmotic coefficient—Eq. 1.1.19). As the activities of the components of a solution are related by the Gibbs-Duhem equation, the measured activity coefficient of the solvent can readily be used to calculate the activity coefficient of a dissolved electrolyte. 

The ideality of the solvent in aqueous electrolyte solutions is commonly tabulated in terms of the osmotic coefficient 0 (e.g., Pitzer and Brewer, 1961, p. 321 Denbigh, 1971, p. 288), which assumes a value of unity in an ideal dilute solution under standard conditions. By analogy to a solution of a single salt, the water activity can be determined from the osmotic coefficient and the stoichiometric ionic strength Is according to,... 

In the B-dot model, the osmotic coefficient is taken to be described by a power series,... 

As a means of verifying the model parameters of Table II, the osmotic coefficient was calculated from isopiestic vapor pressure measurement data (17) for the KCl-KBr-H20 system at 25°C (Table III). 

Sodium chloride has been studied much more thoroughly at high temperature than any other electrolyte. The osmotic coefficient measurements of Liu and Lindsay (30) and various types of measurements of Federov and associates (31) are particularly noteworthy. 

Pitzer et al (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976) have proposed a set of equations based on the general behavior of classes of electrolytes. Pitzer (1973) writes equations for the excess Gibbs energy, AGex, the osmotic coefficient activity coefficient Y+ for single unassociated electrolytes as... 

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