Phase Equilibrium in Mixtures

Abstract

[1st ed.]. Phase Equilibrium in Mixtures. Front Cover; Phase Equilibrium in Mixtures; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Nomenclature and units used; List of symbols; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND SOME THERMODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS; SCOPE OF THE BOOK; THE ROLE OF THERMODYNAMICS AND THE CRITERIA FOR EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN PHASES; THE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; PROPERTIES OF PARTIAL MOLAR QUANTITIES; DEPENDENCE OF THE THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OF PURE SUBSTANCES ON PRESSURE. REFERENCE VALUES FOR THESE FUNCTIONS. THE FUGACITY OF A PURE SUBSTANCE; DEPENDENCE OF THE THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OF MIXTURES ON PRESSURE AND COMPOSITION; THE FUGACITY. Ideal solutionsnon-ideal solutions; the phase rule for non-reacting components; chemically reacting systems; chapter 2. descriptive account of phase equilibria; introduction, phase behaviour of pure substances; vapour-liquid equilibria for systems which are completely miscible in the liquid phase; phase equilibrium diagrams for mixtures of substances which are not completely miscible in the liquid phase; gas hydrates; chapter 3. latent heats and vapour pressures; latent heats; vapour pressure equations for pure substances. Temperature dependence of the dew- and bubble-point pressures of mixturesaccurate representation of vapour pressure and other phase boundary data using residual plots; extension of vapour pressure data using reference substance plots; chapter 4. dilute solutions; henry's law; liquid-liquid equilibrium; the solubility of non-polar substancesin water and in aqueous solutions of electrolytes; chapter 5. ideal and near-ideal solutions; chapter 6. non-ideal solutions at normalpressures: uses of the activity coefficient; introduction. Analytical representation of activity coefficients as functions of composition at constant temperature.correlation of isothermal vapour-liquid equilibrium datathe activity coefficient as a function of temperature; correlation of activity coefficients derived from isobaric vapour-liquid equilibrium data; partial pressures and activity coefficients in systems where a specific reaction occurs; prediction of activity coefficients for binary systems from the properties of the pure components. Prediction of liquid-liquid equilibria in a ternary system when two of the components are virtually immiscibleprediction of vapour-liquid equilibrium data for a binary system with immiscible liquid phases, from mutual solubility data for the two liquids; prediction of activity coefficients for ternary systems from phase equilibrium data for the corresponding binary systems; prediction of activity coefficients for quaternary and multicomponent systems from data for the appropriate binary systems; azeotropes; chapter 7. consistency tests.