Gas Mixtures: Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 6 Edition
Gas Mixtures: Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 6 Edition
Chapter 13
GAS MIXTURES
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Objectives
• Develop rules for determining nonreacting gas mixture
properties from knowledge of mixture composition and
the properties of the individual components.
• Define the quantities used to describe the composition
of a mixture, such as mass fraction, mole fraction, and
volume fraction.
• Apply the rules for determining mixture properties to
ideal-gas mixtures and real-gas mixtures.
• Predict the P-v-T behavior of gas mixtures based on
Dalton’s law of additive pressures and Amagat’s law of
additive volumes.
• Perform energy and exergy analysis of mixing
processes.
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COMPOSITION OF A GAS MIXTURE:
MASS AND MOLE FRACTIONS
To determine the properties of a mixture, we need to know the composition of
the mixture as well as the properties of the individual components. There are
two ways to describe the composition of a mixture:
Molar analysis: specifying
the number of moles of
each component
Gravimetric analysis:
specifying the mass of each
component
The mass of a mixture is equal to the
sum of the masses of its components.
Mass
fraction
Mole
The number of moles of a nonreacting mixture fraction
is equal to the sum of the number of moles of
its components.
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Apparent (or average) molar mass The sum of the mass and
mole fractions of a mixture
is equal to 1.
Gas constant
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P-v-T BEHAVIOR OF GAS The prediction of the P-v-T
MIXTURES: IDEAL AND behavior of gas mixtures
is usually based on two
REAL GASES models:
Dalton’s law of additive
pressures: The pressure
of a gas mixture is equal
to the sum of the
pressures each gas would
exert if it existed alone at
Dalton’s law of additive pressures for a mixture the mixture temperature
of two ideal gases. and volume.
Amagat’s law of additive
volumes: The volume of a
gas mixture is equal to the
sum of the volumes each
gas would occupy if it
existed alone at the
mixture temperature and
pressure.
Amagat’s law of additive volumes for a mixture
of two ideal gases. 5
Pi component pressure Vi component volume
Pi /Pm pressure fraction Vi /Vm volume fraction
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Real-Gas Kay’s rule
Compressibility factor
Mixtures
The extensive
properties of a
mixture are
determined by
simply adding the
properties of the
components.
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Extensive properties of a gas mixture
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Real-Gas Mixtures
T ds relation for a gas mixture
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