Propane phase change in a container

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In a container with 10 bara of nitrogen, introducing liquid propane at room temperature (25°C) will cause the propane to boil, as its boiling point at this pressure is approximately 25°C. When the pressure is reduced to 5 bara, the temperature of the propane will drop below its boiling point, leading to evaporation. The boiling point of propane varies with pressure, and once the temperature falls below this point, evaporation becomes the dominant process. If all propane converts to vapor and the pressure is increased by adding nitrogen, the propane will not condense; only a decrease in temperature can achieve condensation. This understanding confirms the relationship between pressure, temperature, and phase change in propane.
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If I had a container containing 10 bara of nitrogen, and pumped in liquid propane at room temperature would the propane boil?
If I carried out the same experiment but this time at 5 bara, what would be the temperature of the material once the propane had completed its phase change i.e would it drop to around 0C and stop boiling, would the liquid then just evaporate into the vapour space?
 
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Room temperature is what? "bara" is what?
 
Bystander said:
Room temperature is what? "bara" is what?
Take room temperature as 25C, I'm using bar absolute pressure rather than gauge
 
What is the boiling point of propane at 10 bar? What is the vapor pressure at 25?
 
The boiling point at 10bar is approximately 25C. The vapour pressure would therefore also be 10 bar at 25C.
 
Is this an isothermal process? Adiabatic?
 
adiabatic process, I'm aware that there isn't enough info to answer the second question. What I was getting at is: the propane liquids boiling point changes due the the pressure above it no matter what it vapour/gas consists of. Once the temperature drops below its boiling point, evaporation takes over. Also if all the propane turns to vapour (not saturated with vapour), by increasing the pressure by addition of more nitrogen (volume remains constant) the propane will not condense, lowering the temperature is the only way to condense the propane. Is the above logic correct?
 
Kirmandarren said:
adiabatic process, I'm aware that there isn't enough info to answer the second question. What I was getting at is: the propane liquids boiling point changes due the the pressure above it no matter what it vapour/gas consists of. Once the temperature drops below its boiling point, evaporation takes over. Also if all the propane turns to vapour (not saturated with vapour), by increasing the pressure by addition of more nitrogen (volume remains constant) the propane will not condense, lowering the temperature is the only way to condense the propane. Is the above logic correct?
Yes
 
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