Chemical Thermodynamics 2A (CTDCHA2) – 2024

TUTORIAL SESSION 8 (12/04/2024)

Question 1

Ethylene at 167 °C and 7 bar is being processed, and the following virial coefficients
were reported:
B = -54.8 cm3/mol C = 4 120 cm6/mol2

Estimate the molar volume and the compressibility factor for ethylene under these
conditions by the:
a) Ideal gas equation.
b) The virial equation of state truncated to second virial coefficient.
c) The virial equation of state truncated to third virial coefficient.

Question 2

Determine the molar volume and compressibility factor for o-xylene at 650 K and 35
bar assuming that the compound is a:
a) Van der Waals fluid.
b) Peng-Robinson fluid. (Homework)
c) Redlich-Kwong fluid. (Homework)
d) Soave-Redlich-Kwong fluid. (Homework)

Question 3

Determine the molar volume of propane at 360 K and 20 bar by each of the following
approaches:
a) The ideal gas equation
b) The Pitzer generalized compressibility-factor correlation.
c) Pitzer correlation truncated to second virial coefficient.
d) Pitzer correlation truncated to third virial coefficient. (Homework)

Additional Problems:
Examples: 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13
Problems: 3.42, 3.44, 3.45, 3.46, 3.47, 3.48, 3.49, 3.50,

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Chemical Thermodynamics 2A (CTDCHA2) – 2024

APPENDIX

Virial Equation of State Van der Waals Equation of State

Peng-Robinson Equation of State Redlich-Kwong Equation of State

Soave-Redlich-Kwong Equation of State

Pitzer Correlations for Gases

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