Wolfram Demonstrations Project

13,000+ Open Interactive Demonstrations
Powered by Notebook Technology »

K-value of Several Hydrocarbons versus Temperature and Pressure

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

This Demonstration shows the contour plot of versus temperature expressed in °R and pressure expressed in psia, where and are the mole fractions of component in the liquid and vapor phases, respectively. For many systems, -values are approximately independent of composition and we have .

[more]

For light hydrocarbons, the approximate -values can be determined from DePriester charts, which have been fit to the following equation: , where the constants , , , , , and are tabulated [1]. Drag or click the locator to display the values of the temperature and pressure as well as the -value for various light hydrocarbons.

[less]

Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Snapshots

Details

[1] M. L. McWilliams, "An Equation to Relate K-Factors to Pressure and Temperature," Chemical Engineering, 80(25), 1973 p. 138.

Embed Code

Take advantage of the Wolfram Notebook Emebedder for the recommended user experience.

Related Demonstrations More by Author
Browse all topics
Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send