COMPRESSIBILITY

FACTOR
Lucia Rubio Suarez
Patricia Martínez Rubio
Index

 Introduction
 Basic Concepts
 Importance of the Compressibility Factor
 Factors Affecting the Compressibility Factor
 Behavior of Ideal Gases vs. Real Gases
 Experimental and Empirical Methods
 Practical Applications
 Limitations and Challenges
 Introduction

the compressibility (also known as the coefficient of

compressibility or, if the temperature is held constant, the
isothermal compressibility) is a measure of the instantaneous
relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a
pressure (or mean stress) change.
Basic concepts

 is the compressibility factor.

 is the volume of water.
 is the pressure.

The choice to define compressibility as the negative of

the fraction makes compressibility positive in the (usual)
case that an increase in pressure induces a reduction in
volume.