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Telmerk
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Hi dear Forumers,
I 've run into a little thermodynamic problem:
There is a closed vessel, containing a given amount of liquid. I heat up the vessel, higher than the boiling point of the liquid. Here it is what happens:
As a start, I know that the pressure inside the vessel consists of the vapor pressure of the liquid + the pressure of other gases (air).
Increasing the temperature, the partial pressure of the air increases, simply according to ideal gases p ~ T. And the vapor pressure also increases. At a certain temperature, vapor pressure of the liquid will be equal to the pressure of the air inside the vessel, am I right? Then the liquid begins to boil. Question: How can we determine the portion of liquid and vapor?
I tried to find it out by simply using ideal gas law. Volume of the vessel is given, so I can determine, how many liquid need to become vapor in order to reach the given vapor pressure at a given temperature. Then I can substract this amount from the volume of the liquid. And then I reach to the result, hopefully:shy:.
Is this OK? I 'm afraid, because close to the boiling point it is not a wise thing to use ideal gas law.
Please check my thoughts. . .
I 've run into a little thermodynamic problem:
There is a closed vessel, containing a given amount of liquid. I heat up the vessel, higher than the boiling point of the liquid. Here it is what happens:
As a start, I know that the pressure inside the vessel consists of the vapor pressure of the liquid + the pressure of other gases (air).
Increasing the temperature, the partial pressure of the air increases, simply according to ideal gases p ~ T. And the vapor pressure also increases. At a certain temperature, vapor pressure of the liquid will be equal to the pressure of the air inside the vessel, am I right? Then the liquid begins to boil. Question: How can we determine the portion of liquid and vapor?
I tried to find it out by simply using ideal gas law. Volume of the vessel is given, so I can determine, how many liquid need to become vapor in order to reach the given vapor pressure at a given temperature. Then I can substract this amount from the volume of the liquid. And then I reach to the result, hopefully:shy:.
Is this OK? I 'm afraid, because close to the boiling point it is not a wise thing to use ideal gas law.
Please check my thoughts. . .