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Sima Hejazi1,2, Hassan Pahlavanzadeh2, Janet A W Elliott1
1Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 1H9.
Abstract:
In this study, the thermal, mechanical, and chemical equilibrium conditions are derived for binary solid-liquid equilibrium under the effect of an electric field. As an example, the effect of an electric field on the water/glycerol solid-liquid phase diagram is computed over the complete mole fraction range. We show that the application of an electric field can affect the composition dependent freezing and precipitating processes, changing freezing and precipitating temperatures and changing the eutectic point temperature and mole fraction.
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