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Partially-Miscible Liquids Phase Diagram: Screencasts

Demonstrates vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) for a binary system as the positive deviations from Raoult’s law increases until phase separation occurs and two liquid phases are in equilibrium.

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Describes phase behavior for a binary system in which two liquids are only partially miscible. The temperature-composition phase diagram is used to explain the phase behavior.

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Important Equations:

Gibbs Phase Rule for non-reactive system:     F = 2 + C – P
where F is the number of degrees of freedom
C is the number of components
P is the number of phases

Fugacity of two liquids in equilibrium: \[x_{i}^{\alpha}\gamma_{i}^{\alpha}P_{i}^{sat}\,=\,x_{i}^{\beta}\gamma_{i}^{\beta}P_{i}^{sat}\]

where \(\gamma_{i}^{\alpha}\) and \(\gamma_{i}^{\beta}\) are the activity coeffecients of component \(i\) in the \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) phase respectively, and \(x_i^{\alpha}\) and \(x_i^{\beta}\) are the mole fractions in the alpha and beta phases.