Chapter 20: Safety

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, 5th Edition

by Stephen Hall
 Antoine Constants Pure
Problem Statement:
A B C Flash Pt, C Construct a table of flash points for binary mixtu
Ethyl Alcohol 8.11 1,592.86 226.18 13.0
Water 8.01 1,701.79 231.47
Saturated vapor pressure at the flash point 28.35

Err:502 VP, mm Hg Margules

X Temp, deg C Ethyl Alcohol Goal γ1

0.00 139.71 5,739.69 5,739.7 4.940
0.03 49.80 219.08 219.1 4.314
0.06 38.61 124.98 125.0 3.781
0.10 32.13 88.27 88.3 3.212
0.15 28.17 70.76 70.8 2.671
0.20 26.00 62.52 62.5 2.268
0.30 23.69 54.66 54.7 1.729
0.40 22.27 50.24 50.2 1.411
0.50 20.97 46.49 46.5 1.220
0.60 19.56 42.70 42.7 1.107
0.70 18.00 38.82 38.8 1.043
0.80 16.33 35.01 35.0 1.012
0.90 14.63 31.46 31.5 1.001
1.00 13.00 28.35 28.4 1.000

Mole Fraction Methyl AlcoholEthyl Alcohol n-Propanol Isopropanol

Solution Model 0.00 190.3 139.7 110.0 109.4
None 1 0.03 68.7 49.8 40.0 35.7
Margules 2 0.06 52.9 38.6 32.7 27.3
van Laar 3 0.10 43.0 32.1 29.6 23.0
0.15 36.1 28.2 28.6 21.0
0.20 31.7 26.0 28.8 20.4
0.30 26.2 23.7 30.0 20.4
0.40 22.6 22.3 30.9 20.5
0.50 19.9 21.0 30.8 20.2
0.60 17.6 19.6 30.0 19.3
0.70 15.5 18.0 28.5 18.0
0.80 13.6 16.3 26.6 16.3
0.90 11.8 14.6 24.7 14.6
1.00 10.0 13.0 23.0 13.0
 Margules Parameters van Laar Parameters
atement:
A12 A21 A12 A21
table of flash points for binary mixtures.
1.6022 0.7947 1.6798 0.9227

Margules Model van Laar Model

Difference γ1 γ1
0.00 4.940 5.332
0.00 4.314 4.506
0.00 3.781 3.851
(0.00) 3.212 3.197
(0.00) 2.671 2.618
(0.00) 2.268 2.211
(0.00) 1.729 1.699
0.00 1.411 1.409
0.00 1.220 1.235
0.00 1.107 1.128
0.00 1.043 1.063
(0.00) 1.012 1.025
0.00 1.001 1.006
(0.00) 1.000 1.000
0.00
M ixture F lash P oint, °C

100.0

90.0

80.0

70.0

60.0

50.0

40.0

30.0

20.0

10.0

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0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00
Mole Fraction of Alcohol, Liquid Phase
iso-Propanol Methanol Ethanol n-Propanol
 Antoine Coefficients Mol Wt Margules Parameters
A B C MW FP, C A12 A21
Methyl Alcohol 8.08097 1582.271 239.726 32.042 10 0.7923 0.5434
n-Propanol 7.6192 1375.14 193.01 60.1 23 2.707 0.7172
Isopropanol 8.1182 1580.92 219.62 60.1 13 2.3319 0.8976
Ethyl Alcohol 8.1122 1592.864 226.184 46.069 13 1.6022 0.7947
Water 8.01352769 1701.78587 231.466749 18.015
van Laar Parameters
A12 A21
0.8041 0.5619
2.9095 1.1572
2.4702 1.0938
1.6798 0.9227