How to Calculate Final Pressure in a CO2-Saturated Sealed Vessel?

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I have a sealed vessel, it is 200 ml, it contains 25 ml of water which is then saturated with CO2 (bubbled through at 0.3 l/min unitil pH drops, ~ 1 h) at rt. The vessel is then heated to 130 °C. I wish to calculate the final pressure of the system.

Thus far I have calculated the volume of CO2 in the water using NIST solubility values.
I believe the total pressure of the system to be P= PsatW + Po + Pn + Pco2.
The saturation pressure of water is calculated using the Antonine equation
Then the partial pressures of oxygen, nitrogen and CO2 are calculated using the ideal gas eq.

However, I am not sure whether I can apply the ideal gas equation to the dissolved CO2.
Additionally I am not including Henry's Law to account for air dissolved in water as I am assuming the solution is saturated(or near enough) with CO2.

Is there another way of doing this? Does anyone know how to account for the dissolved CO2?

Thanks in advance
 
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Thanks for your enquiry,

I have a literature based value of what the partial pressure of the CO2 in equilibrium with water will be at 25C. Your second statement is also correct. I essentially want to ensure I am not going to break the 4 bar pressure limit on the vessel. I believe the CO2 should have an almost negligible effect, however I need to write a risk assessment.
 
nbcromp1 said:
Thanks for your enquiry,

I have a literature based value of what the partial pressure of the CO2 in equilibrium with water will be at 25C. Your second statement is also correct. I essentially want to ensure I am not going to break the 4 bar pressure limit on the vessel. I believe the CO2 should have an almost negligible effect, however I need to write a risk assessment.
To be conservative, assume all the CO2 comes out of solution at 130 C. What is the vapor pressure of water at 130 C?
 
Ok so I think what I have initially done is right then, calculated the vapour pressure of water using the Antonine to be 2.687 bar at 130 °C, then added the pressure of the total number of moles of gas, not accounting for final liquid volume and dissolution of gas in water. This should provide a safe estimate.
 
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