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The document provides homework problems on engineering separations involving calculating activity coefficients using van Laar constants from azeotrope data, developing x-y diagrams for a toluene-acetic acid system assuming temperature-independent constants, and checking the relationship between vapor pressure and solubility for the Henry's law constant using data on pollutants.

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Chene4140 Fall 1f5 Hw2

The document provides homework problems on engineering separations involving calculating activity coefficients using van Laar constants from azeotrope data, developing x-y diagrams for a toluene-acetic acid system assuming temperature-independent constants, and checking the relationship between vapor pressure and solubility for the Henry's law constant using data on pollutants.

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CHEN E 4140 X Engineering Separations

Spring 2015 HW #2 due Oct.7, 2015


1. RECOMMENDED READING: Seader Chap. 2.sections 2.2-6
2. Seader Problems 2.5, 2.24
3. Toluene and acetic acid form non-ideal liquid mixtures at ambient pressure (1.013 bar) over the
temperature range for VLE, with a minimum-boiling point azeotrope of 105.4o C at a mole fraction toluene xT = 0:627: The following vapor pressure data are available on the pure components
T (o C) PTS (T ) PAS (T )
70
0.2699 0.1813
80
0.3863 0.2697
90
0.5395 0.3916
100
0.7429 0.5561
110
0.7744
110.7 1.0133
118.5
1.013
120
1.0586
(a) From the minimum boiling boint data, estimate the van Laar activity coe cient model constants
for this mixture. Plot ln T and ln A vs. xT . Does the models predictions conform to the
expectations for ln i supplied by the Gibbs-Duhem eauation? You will nd Eqs. 2-73 and 2-74
in Seader are helpful.
(b) Assuming the van Laar constants are independent of temperature over the range of temperatures
for the VLE in this system at ambient pressure, develop an xT vs. yT diagram for this system.
Plot also the system temperature vs .xT . Compare the results for the case that the liquid phase
is an ideal mixture (Raoults law system). Note that numerical work is required here, so use
whatever software you are comfortable with (Excel, MATLAB, MATHCAD, Python).
(c) Similar to part b., assume the van Laar constants are independent of temperature, and nd the
xT vs. yT diagram at contant tempreature T = 105.4o C. Plot also the system pressure vs .xT .
Compare the results for the case that the liquid phase is an ideal mixture (Raoults law system).
4. A considerable amount of physico-chemical data has been gathered on hydrophobic pollutants because
of the environmental implications. A number of these are in the liquid state at ambient temperature
and pressure (T = 25o C, P = 101:3kP a). Typically these liquids have very low vapor pressure
at ambient temperature, and are sparingly soluble in water at ambient conditions, that is, the mole
fraction of the pollutant dissolved in water when equilibrated with the (nearly) pure pollutant liquid
sat
at ambient conditions xsat
<< 1: Show that for the Henry law coe cient dened by entry
i , obeys xi
(6) in Table 2.3 of Seader for the water-pollutant pair, that
Hi =

PiS
xsat
i

where PiS is tha vapor pressure of pollutant i at the relevant conditions. Check the validity of this
relationship based on the following data
Pollutant
1,3 butadiene
1,2,4 trichlorobenzene
aniline
1,2 dichlorobenzene
ethylbenzene

PiS (kP a) at 25o C


281.0
0.053
0.065
0.196
1.27

Solubility in Water (ppm)


735
48.8
3.607x104
156
152

Hi0 (bar m3 =mol)


20.6
1.44x10 3
0.138
1.2x10 3
8.19x10 3

Note the units of Hi0 (6= Hi ) means the Henry law constant reported in the table is based on the
solubility of the pollutant expressed as a molar concentration rather than as a mole fraction.

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