Vapor-bound condensers

Air recirculation Condenser liquid drainage Subcooling reflux Vapor-bound condensers... 

In 1958, Pitzer (141), in a remarkable contribution that appears to have been the first theoretical consideration of this phenomenon, likened the liquid-liquid phase separation in metal-ammonia solutions to the vapor-liquid condensation that accompanies the cooling of a nonideal alkali metal vapor in the gas phase. Thus, in sodium-ammonia solutions below 231 K we would have a phase separation into an insulating vapor (corresponding to matrix-bound, localized excess electrons) and a metallic (matrix-bound) liquid metal. This suggestion of a "matrix-bound analog of the critical liquid-vapor separation in pure metals preceeded almost all of the experimental investigations (41, 77, 91,92) into dense, metallic vapors formed by an expansion of the metallic liquid up to supercritical conditions. It was also in advance of the possible fundamental connection between this type of critical phenomenon and the NM-M transition, as pointed out by Mott (125) and Krumhansl (112) in the early 1960s. 

In (c) we have a condenser similar to those found in chemistry labs. Usually, hot vapor flows through the center of the condenser while cold water flows on the outside, causing the vapor to condense. This system is open because it allows mass flow through its boundaries. It is composite because of the waU that separates the two fluids. It is adiabatic because it is insulated from the surroundings. Even though heat is transferred between the inner and outer tube, this transfer is internal to the system (it does not cross the system bounds) and does not make the system diathermal. 

To build a molecular model of the equilibrium between a liquid and its vapor we first suppose that the liquid is introduced into an evacuated closed container. Vapor forms as molecules leave the surface of the liquid. Most evaporation takes place from the surface of the liquid because the molecules there are least strongly bound to their neighbors and can escape more easily than those in the bulk. Howevei as the number of molecules in the vapor increases, more of them become available to strike the surface of the liquid, stick to it, and become part of the liquid again. Eventually, the number of molecules returning to the liquid each second matches the number escaping (Fig. 8.2). The vapor is now condensing as fast as the liquid is vaporizing, and so the equilibrium is dynamic in the sense introduced in Section 7.11 ... 

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We will now assume all of the species in reaction 55 are in their condensed phases and again fail to distinguish heats of vaporization and sublimation. For the sulphonyl sulphenate 46, we again use equation 47 where the ncessary value of b was derived as the sum of those for sulphones, ethers and sulphides, resulting in a predicted AHf(g, 46) value of —83 kcal mol-1. Relatedly, the value of b for sulphenic acids was taken as the sum of those for alcohols and sulphides, and thus AHf(g, 85)= —26 kcal mol-1. The left-hand side of reaction 39 is [ — 117 + ( — 26)] — [ — 83 +( — 68)] = 8 kcal mol-1 more stable than the right, where we remember that the value for PhS02—O—S—Ph is an upper bound. The results for the gaseous and condensed phases are thus seen as consonant. It is safe to say that benzenesulphonyl benzenesulfenate is best not viewed as an anhydride since its hydrolysis is endothermic. 

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