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    How To Solve For Equilibrium Data

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    This document provides steps to calculate equilibrium data for a toluene-benzene system assuming ideality. It involves: 1) Using the Antoine equation and temperature data to calculate the relative volatility at two temperatures. 2) Averaging the relative volatilities to determine the overall relative volatility. 3) Using the relative volatility to calculate composition values x and y and plot the results, finding it closely matches literature data.

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    How To Solve For Equilibrium Data

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    This document provides steps to calculate equilibrium data for a toluene-benzene system assuming ideality. It involves: 1) Using the Antoine equation and temperature data to calculate the relative volatility at two temperatures. 2) Averaging the relative volatilities to determine the overall relative volatility. 3) Using the relative volatility to calculate composition values x and y and plot the results, finding it closely matches literature data.

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    This document provides steps to calculate equilibrium data for a toluene-benzene system assuming ideality. It involves: 1) Using the Antoine equation and temperature data to calculate the relative volatility at two temperatures. 2) Averaging the relative volatilities to determine the overall relative volatility. 3) Using the relative volatility to calculate composition values x and y and plot the results, finding it closely matches literature data.

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    How To Solve For Equilibrium Data

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    This document provides steps to calculate equilibrium data for a toluene-benzene system assuming ideality. It involves: 1) Using the Antoine equation and temperature data to calculate the relative volatility at two temperatures. 2) Averaging the relative volatilities to determine the overall relative volatility. 3) Using the relative volatility to calculate composition values x and y and plot the results, finding it closely matches literature data.

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    HOW TO SOLVE FOR EQUILIBRIUM DATA (ASSUMING IDEALITY)

    Say, we are talking of toluene-benzene system. So to solve for relative volatility (from the Flash
    Distillation Discussion) we know that:

    Therefore, we should get the P A* and PA*. Using Antoine Equation for Toluene and Benzene from Table
    2-8 of Perry’s Handbook. Average elative volatility would be = √ α TF α BP . In this example let’s assume
    that Tf = 85 and Tbp = 100. We need to get the data from these points. Remember that A is the more
    volatile composition.

    Temperature, oC PA*, kPa PB*, kPa


    85 116.9 46
    100 179.2 74.3

    Therefore,

    116.9
    α TF = =2. 5 41
    46
    179.2
    α BP= =2.412
    74.3
    α ave =√ α TF α BP

    α ave =√ 2.541 ( 2. 412 )=2.476

    Knowing know the α ave we can now solve for x and y.


    Assign value for x, then solve for y.

    x y
    0.0 0.0
    0.1 0.216
    0.2 0.382
    0.3 0.514
    0.4 0.623
    0.5 0.712
    0.6 0.7879
    0.7 0.852
    0.8 0.908
    0.9 0.957
    1 1

    Plotting this in the graph, we have:

    y
    1.2

    1
    f(x) = 0.76 x³ − 1.98 x² + 2.22 x + 0.01
    R² = 1
    0.8

    0.6

    0.4

    0.2

    0
    0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2

    Comparison from Geankoplis Data:


    Plotting, we have:

    1.2

    1
    f(x) = 0.67 x³ − 1.86 x² + 2.19 x + 0
    R² = 1
    0.8

    0.6

    0.4

    0.2

    0
    0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2

    Side by side comparison of how we solve (blue dots) vs data given in Transport Phenomena:
    1.2

    1
    f(x) = − 0 x³ − 0 x² − 0.09 x + 1.1
    R² = 1
    0.8

    0.6

    0.4

    0.2

    0
    0 2 4 6 8 10 12

    y Polynomial (y) y

    You may see in the plot that the data almost of not totally coincides with one another.

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