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Published on: June 8, 2015
Nonideal statistical rate theory formulation to predict evaporation rates from equations of state
Atam Kapoor1, Janet A W Elliott
1Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract:
A method of including nonideal effects in the statistical rate theory (SRT) formulation is presented and a generic equation-of-state based SRT model was developed for predicting evaporation rates. Further, taking the Peng-Robinson equation of state as an example, vapor phase pressures at which particular evaporation rates are expected were calculated, and the predictions were found to be in excellent agreement with the experimental observations for water and octane. A high temperature range (near the critical region) where the previously existing ideal SRT model is expected to yield inaccurate results was identified and predictions (for ethane and butane) were instead made with the Peng-Robinson based SRT model to correct for fluid nonidealities at high temperatures and pressures.
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