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Article history: This article presents three interrelated topics. First, the Henrys law constant (HLC) and its use are reviewed
Received 7 April 2008 in a broader thermodynamic context reaching beyond the restricted image of HLC as a coefcient reecting
Received in revised form 14 July 2008 partitioning between liquid and vapor phases. The relationships of HLC to the vaporliquid distribu-
Accepted 29 July 2008
tion coefcient and the airwater partition coefcient are discussed as well as the interrelation between
Available online 6 August 2008
expressions of HLC in terms of different concentration scales. Second, the previously published group
contribution method for estimation of HLC of hydrocarbons [J. Sedlbauer, G. Bergin, V. Majer, AIChE J. 48
Keywords:
(2002) 2936] is extended by adding the newly determined parameters for CH4 , CO2 and H2 S. Inclusion of
Henrys law constant
Aqueous
these three major constituents of the natural gas makes the method more versatile in application to sys-
Hydrocarbons tems where oil and/or natural gas coexist with an aqueous phase. When establishing the parameters of the
CO2 model the representative HLCs from literature were combined with the data on the derivative properties
H2 S available over a wide range of conditions from the calorimetric and volumetric experiments. An attention
is paid particularly to the effect of pressure on the HLC. Third, a convenient user-friendly software package
is described allowing calculation of HLC and of other related coefcients over a wide range of temperature
and pressure on the basis of the presented model. This package is available on request in an executable
form on a shareware basis for non-commercial users.
2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
1. Introduction and aerosols. The Henrys law constant is also used extensively in
chemical engineering and geochemistry for designing or describing
The Henrys law constant KH is a quantity frequently applied processes where dilute aqueous systems are involved, often over
in the thermodynamic description of dilute aqueous solutions. It a wide range of temperature and pressure. In this case it is nec-
was originally proposed more than 200 years ago [1] as a mea- essary to adopt some theoretically founded concepts allowing a
sure of gas solubility in a liquid, and expressed as a ratio of the realistic calculation of the Henrys law constant at superambient
partial pressure of a gaseous solute to its equilibrium concentra- conditions.
tion in the liquid phase. The perception and use of the Henrys The use of the Henrys law constant by different communities
law constant today is, however, much broader; from the physico- is reected by the establishment of multiple and alternative def-
chemical point of view KH is basically a coefcient relating the initions of this quantity, leading to a considerable confusion in
fugacity of a dissolved nonelectrolyte to its concentration in a solu- literature. Thus, the Henrys law constant is certainly a coefcient
tion. The solute can be in the pure state gaseous, liquid or solid and the most frequently applied in phase equilibrium calculations con-
solvent is often water. The Henrys law constant is namely used cerning dilute solutions, but its thermodynamic essence is often
in environmental chemistry and atmospheric physics as a major misunderstood or misinterpreted. For that reason we have found
criterion for describing airwater partitioning of solutes at near- useful to present in the rst part of this paper a concise review
ambient conditions. It plays a major role in evaluating the transport of the thermodynamics regarding the Henrys law constant and to
of pollutants between atmosphere and aquatic systems, rain water show how the different versions of KH and other related coefcients
are interconnected.
An effort has been made over the past years to use the QSPR1
concepts for building up linear prediction schemes for the Henrys
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Corresponding author. Tel.: +420 48 535 3375; fax: +420 48 510 5882.
E-mail addresses: vladimir.majer@univ-bpclermont.fr (V. Majer),
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josef.sedlbauer@tul.cz (J. Sedlbauer). QSPR quantitative structureproperty relationship.
0378-3812/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.uid.2008.07.013
66 V. Majer et al. / Fluid Phase Equilibria 272 (2008) 6574
law constant, covering a variety of organic solutes in water. After condition. For that reason it is a function of two independent vari-
the pioneering work of Hine and Mookerjee [2] this approach ables, temperature and pressure.2
has become namely popular in environmental chemistry where The chemical potential of a solute in a solution (the partial molar
different methods using fragmentary contributions [3], topologi- Gibbs energy, Gs ) can be expressed depending on the choice of
ig
cal descriptors [4,5] or solvochromic parameters [68] have been the standard state (Gs [T, pref ] for ideal gas at a reference pressure
used for estimations at 298 K. In addition, more sophisticated, yet pref = 0.1 MPa, or Gs [T, p] for innitely dilute solution3 ) as
mainly empirical, computational models were introduced recently f
using quantum mechanical descriptors [911] and advanced sta- ig
Gs [T, p] = Gs [T, pref ] + RT ln
s
= Gs [T, p] + RT ln(xs sH ) (2)
tistical techniques based on neural networks [1214]. While all pref
these schemes are designed for predictions at near-ambient con-
The symbol sH stands for the dimensionless activity coefcient
ditions, the methods for estimation of the Henrys law constant as
compatible with the Henrys law, i.e. limxs 0 sH = 1 Combination
a function of temperature are limited. Sedlbauer et al. [15] have
of Eqs. (1) and (2) in the limit of innite dilution leads to the expres-
published a model allowing calculation of the Henrys law con-
sion
stant for aqueous C2 to C12 hydrocarbons over a wide range of
temperature (273 < T < 573 K) and pressure (0.1 < p < 100 MPa). The
K [T, p]
= Gs [T, p] Gs [T, pref ] = Ghyd
H ig
RT ln [T, p] (3)
group contribution approach was used for calculating the param- pref
eters of a thermodynamically sound model for innite dilution
where Ghyd is the Gibbs energy of hydration corresponding to the
properties [16] allowing to obtain KH via the Gibbs energy of
hydration. transfer of a solute from an ideal gas state to an innitely dilute
Besides clarifying various concepts of the Henrys law con- solution.
stant this article has basically two objectives. First, the previously For description of solutions, other concentration variables are
published estimation method of Sedlbauer and collaborators sometimes preferred to the molar fraction xs . These are namely
is extended by adding the parameters for CH4 , CO2 and H2 S. molality ms (mol/kg) popular with geochemists or molarity cs
Inclusion of these three major constituents of the natural gas (mol/m3 ) used often in environmental science. It holds in the limit
encountered frequently in the presence of other hydrocarbons of innite dilution
(NC > 2) makes the method more versatile for phase equilib- xs xs w
rium calculations in systems where oil and/or natural gas coexist lim ms = and lim cs = (4)
xs 0 Mw xs 0 Mw
with an aqueous phase. When establishing the parameters for
these three gaseous solutes we have combined the representa- where Mw (kg/mol) and w (kg/m3 ) are the molar mass and density
tive Henrys law constants selected recently by Fernandez-Prini of water, respectively. The values of the standard state chemical
et al. [17] with the data on the derivative properties available potentials are therefore affected by the choice of the concentration
over a wide range of conditions from the calorimetric and vol- variable as follows
umetric experiments. An attention is paid particularly to the M c
w o
effect of pressure on the Henrys law constant of gases and liq- Gsm = Gsx + RT ln(Mw mo ) and Gsc = Gsx + RT ln (5)
w
uids.
Second, a convenient user-friendly software package is Since activity coefcients are always dimensionless, the standard
described allowing calculation of the Henrys law constant and concentrations mo = 1 mol/kg and co = 1 mol/m3 must be introduced
several related coefcients characterizing vaporliquid equilib- for converting molality and molarity to dimensionless concentra-
ria over a wide range of conditions. This package is available tion variables. Introduction of Eq. (5) into Eq. (3) then leads to
on request in an executable form on a shareware basis for non- the relationship between KH and the alternative denitions of the
commercial users. Availability of such a software tool is important Henrys law constant in terms of molality KHm and molarity KHc . It
for implementation of the method. The reprogramming of the holds:
model would be complex, requiring, e.g. the use of the same fs
fundamental EOS for water as that applied when establishing KHm = lim = KHx Mw mo and
ms 0 ms /mo
the group contributions for calculating the parameters of the
model. f co
s
KHc = lim = KHx Mw (6)
cs 0 cs /co w
2. Thermodynamic background
This means that both KHm and KHc have also dimension of pressure
The aim of the following outline of basic equations is to present and are thus consistent with Eqs. (3) and (5). In practical use, the
the Henrys law constant in a broader thermodynamic context alternative Henrys law constants are, however, usually expressed
going beyond its restrictive viewing as a coefcient reecting parti- simply as a ratio of pressure to molality or molarity. While this
tioning between the liquid and vapor phases, as well as to elucidate is not strictly rigorous in the light of the above relationships, this
the interrelation between the related coefcients dened in terms simplied convention allows to distinguish immediately what con-
of different concentration scales. centration scale was selected and is therefore generally used in
The Henrys law constant KH is dened in modern chemical applications.
thermodynamics as the limiting fugacity/molar fraction ratio of
a solute in a solution [18,19] and has therefore the dimension of
pressure 2
The denition of the Henrys law constant introduced here is of course more
f general than that resulting from the historical understanding of KH exclusively as
s
KH [T, p] = lim (1) a parameter reecting the gas solubility. When the Henrys law constant is obtained
xs 0 xs experimentally from the vaporliquid equilibrium measurements it is related logi-
cally to the vapor pressure of the solvent due to the limit of innite dilution.
Fugacity of the solute fs and its molar fraction xs relate to the same 3
This standard state adopted for aqueous species is unit activity in a hypothet-
phase, thus this is a one-phase denition of the Henrys law con- ical solution of unit concentration referenced to innite dilution (denoted with
stant without assumption of any kind of the phase equilibrium superscript ).
V. Majer et al. / Fluid Phase Equilibria 272 (2008) 6574 67
The derivatives of Eq. (3) allow establishing the exact thermo- Henrys law constant is therefore mostly presented in the litera-
dynamic relationships describing the temperature and pressure ture along the saturation line of water and for that reason some
dependence of the Henrys law constant. It holds: authors maintain that KH is a function of one independent variable
onlytemperature (e.g. [2123]). This statement is, however, not
lnKH
= (Hs [T, p] Hs [T, pref ]) = Hhyd
2 ig
RT (7) quite correct considering the direct link of the Henrys law con-
T stant with the Gibbs energy of hydration and implying a general
p
validity of Eq. (9). It is in principle always possible to construct
2 lnKH ig the thermodynamic surface of KH [T, p] with two independent state
RT = (Cp,s [T, p] Cp,s [T, pref ]) = Cp,hyd (8)
T T variables. The limited amount of the volumetric data for aqueous
p
solutes, especially at superambient conditions, is, however, a major
ln KH
RT = Vs [T, p]. (9) obstacle. Without this information it is difcult to separate in Eq.
p (10) the effect of pressure on the Henrys law constant from the
T
nonideality of aqueous solution since the concentration of solute
The standard thermodynamic properties (enthalpy, heat capac-
ig ig xs is increasing due to increasing pressure and the solution cannot
ity and volume) of solute relate to an ideal gas (Hs , Cp,s ) or an
then be considered as ideal (sH =/ 1). This interconnection between
innitely dilute solution (Hs , Cp,s , Vs ). It follows from Eqs. (7) and
the Poynting and nonideality corrections hampers the use of high-
(8) that the temperature dependence of the Henrys law constant
pressure vaporliquid equilibrium data for KH determination [65].
can be calculated by integrating the derivative hydration properties
, C The Henrys law constant of sparingly soluble liquids or solids in
(Hhyd ) that are accessible from calorimetric and spectro-
p,hyd water is determined from their solubilities xssol in water as follows:
scopic measurements. Enthalpy of hydration Hhyd is calculated as
a combination of heat of solution and the residual enthalpy (dif- Vs (p psat
s )
psat
s s
sat
exp = KH [T, p]xssol (11)
ference between the enthalpy of pure solute and that of an ideal RT
gas) that is in absolute value close to the enthalpy of vaporization
for liquid solutes. The heat capacity of hydration Cp,hyd , calcu- where psat
s and Vs are the vapor pressure and molar volume of
pure solute, respectively. This equation is valid for low solubilities
lated as a difference of solute heat capacity at innite dilution and
where sH 1 and in the cases where the solubility of water in the
that of an ideal gas, is positive and increasing with temperature
nonaqueous phase can be neglected. Since the volume of a con-
for volatile nonelectrolytes [20]. Hhyd values, generally negative
densed solute changes little with pressure, this equation is a good
at near-ambient conditions, become positive at high temperatures,
approximation that allows to calculate the Henrys law constant as
scaling with water expansivity and diverging when approaching
a function of both temperature and pressure. At low pressures it
the critical point of water. The Henrys law constant is therefore at
simply holds that KH = psat sol
s /xs , this relationship being the main
rst increasing with temperature, exhibiting a maximum typically
avenue used for calculating the Henrys law constant of low volatil-
between 373 and 473 K, and decreasing with temperature when
ity solutes that are sparingly soluble in water.
approaching the critical point of water.
The symmetrical limiting activity coefcients sR complying
Similarly the change of the Henrys law constant with pressure
with the Raoults law (limxs 1 sR = 1) are extensively used in
can be calculated by integrating Eq. (9) where the partial molar
engineering thermodynamics for describing nonideality of dilute
volume at innite dilution of a solute Vs is accessible from den-
solutions at temperatures up to 373 K and at ambient pressure.
sitometric measurements. Its value is proportional to the molar
Their determination from the phase equilibrium data is carried
mass of solute at room temperature and scales with compressibil-
out typically via the Henrys law constant or related coefcients
ity of water at conditions remote from ambient, diverging positively
dened below. Since the fugacity of a solute in the liquid phase can
at the critical point of water for volatile nonelectrolytes [20]. The
be expressed as fs = fs l xs sR , the combination with Eq. (1) gives
Henrys law constant is therefore generally increasing with increas-
ing pressure. The integral of Eq. (9) between saturation pressure KH = fs l sR = psat,l
s sR (12)
of the solvent and pressure of the system is identical with the
l
KrichevskiKasarnovsky equation used in the chemical engineering where fs and psat,l
are the fugacity and saturation vapor pressure
s
literature for calculating the so-called Poynting correction express- of a real or hypothetical liquid solute.
ing the change of fugacity with pressure. Several other coefcients closely related to KH were introduced
It is apparent from the combination of Eqs. (6)(9) that KHm and for describing the partitioning of solutes between the vapor and
KH have identical temperature and pressure slopes while a minor liquid phases. This is the case of the vaporliquid distribution coef-
difference is observed in the case of KHc where the mechanical cient Kd (denoted sometimes also as the limiting relative volatility
coefcients of water (expansivity and compressibility) play a role. ) that is dened as
The Henrys law constant is used mainly for the description of y
s
vapor (or gas)liquid equilibria and the compositions of coexisting Kd = lim (13)
xs 0 xs
phases (ys and xs ) obtained from experiments are at the same time
also the major data source for determining KH of volatile solutes: It follows immediately from Eq. (10) for a binary system consisting
of a solute and water
p
Vs [T, p] KH [T, psat
pys s = KH [T, psat
w ] exp dp xs sH . (10) Kd = w ]
(14)
RT
psat
w psat
w w
sat
coefcient of a solute in the vapor and the saturation pressure of It means that Kd corresponds simply to the ratio of the Henrys
water, respectively. Since the Henrys law constant is dened in the law constant and saturation vapor pressure at conditions where
limit of innite dilution (Eq. (1)), it can be obtained from experi- vapor phase nonideality can be neglected. Coefcient Kd is logically
mental vaporliquid equilibrium data when p psat s . Then in the dened exclusively along the saturation line of solvent.
above relationship both the exponential term (the Poynting correc- The Henrys law constant is often considered in geochemistry
tion) and sH approach unity. The temperature dependence of the and atmospheric physics as a thermodynamic reaction constant
68 V. Majer et al. / Fluid Phase Equilibria 272 (2008) 6574
where w is water compressibility. At temperatures close to ambi- law constant at 298.15 K obtained from the evaluated data by
/RT and T are of the order of 10 and 0.1, respectively. Fernandez-Prini et al. [17] using Eq. (3). The Shyd [T , p ] val-
ent Hhyd w ref ref
Then the above relationship suggests that the temperature slope of ues are those recommended by Plyasunov et al. [26]. Table 1
Kaw is about 10% lower compared to that for KH . lists the concrete Gibbs energy and entropy of hydration values:
the rst line contains the intrinsic YSS values that correspond to
3. Description of the group contribution method for KH the material point contribution to the Gibbs energy and entropy
of hydration. This term is derived from statistical mechanics
The Henrys law constants is calculated as a function of temper- [27] and can be calculated using only the properties of pure
ature and pressure via the Gibbs energy of hydration that can be solvent:
RT
expressed as follows [24]
GSS = RT ln
K p Vw
RT ln
H
= Ghyd
[T, p] = Ghyd [Tref , pref ] RT
pref GSS
SSS = = R ln + 1 w T (21)
T T p Vw
p p
(T Tref )Shyd [Tref , pref ] + (Cp,hyd ) ref dT
Tref where p = 0.1 MPa and Vw and w are the molar volume and the
T p
coefcient of thermal expansion of water, respectively.
T
(Cp,hyd )
pref
d ln T + (Vs )T dp (19) The sum of the three integrals on the right-hand side of Eq.
Tref pref (19) is calculated from the high-temperature hydration model
[T , p ] and S [T , p ] are the terms relating
(SedlbauerOConnellWood, SOCW) proposed by Sedlbauer et al.
where Ghyd ref ref hyd ref ref [16]. Since the integration of the standard heat capacity equation is
to the reference state at Tref = 298.15 and pref = p = 0.1 MPa. The complex within this model it is more convenient to rearrange Eq.
entropic term is typically obtained as (19) as follows:
[T , p ] G [T , p ]
Hhyd
ref ref hyd ref ref Ghyd [T, p] = Ghyd [Tref , pref ] (T Tref )Shyd [Tref , pref ]
Shyd [Tref , pref ] = (20)
Tref
mod mod
+Ghyd [T, p] (Ghyd [Tref , pref ]
using the Gibbs energy and enthalpy reference state data. The
three integrals express the change with temperature and pres- mod
(T Tref )Shyd [Tref , pref ]) (22)
sure, the superscripts pref and T indicate the constant variable at
which the integration is performed. We have adopted an approach It is apparent that the sum of integrals is replaced by a com-
combining two distinct schemes; one for calculating the values of bination of three terms (denoted by superscript mod) using the
V. Majer et al. / Fluid Phase Equilibria 272 (2008) 6574 69
Table 2
Group contributions for calculating parameters of the T, p dependent (SOCW) model
Functional group a 103 (m3 kg1 mol) b 104 (m3 kg1 mol) c 106 (m3 kg1 mol) d e 10 (J K2 mol1 )
Ca
34.6310 9.4034 53.9212 7.3260 13.7921
CHa 6.5437 1.8156 16.9215 0.9492 3.9136
CH2 a 0.0244 0.7216 8.9576 0.3416 1.8264
CH3 a 7.2778 0.1571 1.9499 1.4268 0.0177
C Ca 10.2988 9.5352 12.9835 11.4045 1.4871
H a 2.8400 3.1911 9.2357 3.1496 0.5847
c-CHa 16.9864 4.8289 5.0487 3.3563 0.9028
c-CH2 a 3.0612 0.1108 7.6472 0.7839 1.2200
Car a 9.1549 2.2106 21.3460 1.3723 4.9993
CHar a 0.6924 0.5168 5.0903 0.3337 1.0754
CH4 b 3.90203 2.09843 2.4163 0 0.746493
CO2 b 3.15041 1.5963 9.65805 0.407478 1.90856
H2 Sb 1.36697 1.69674 12.8815 0.443516 2.81635
a
Group contributions for hydrocarbons reported by Sedlbauer et al. [15].
b
Parameters for individual compounds determined in this work.
expressions for the Gibbs energy and entropy of hydration from where Vs is expressed from Eq. (23). An additional empirical correc-
the high-temperature model. cor is needed at subcritical conditions since the simple
tion term Ghyd
The equation for the standard molar volume of an aqueous volumetric Eq. (23) is not sufcient for describing quantitatively the
solute is the basic relationship of the SOCW model: integration across the vaporliquid saturation line. This correction
is dened on the heat capacity level and for nonelectrolytes has the
Vs = RTw + d(Vw RTw ) + RTw w a + b(exp[w ] 1) form
cor
2 Ghyd cor
Shyd cor
Cp,hyd e(T Tc )2
= = = ,
+ c exp + (exp[w ] 1) (23) T 2 T T T (T 228)
T p
p
T < Tc (25)
where = 0.005 m3 /kg,
= 1500 K and = 0.01 m3 /kg are the pre-
determined general constants valid for all solutes. The solute
specic adjustable parameters are a, b, c and d, while = 0.35a where e is an additional adjustable parameter. Contribution of the
holds for all nonelectrolytes. This equation is in fact modeling a correction term is decreasing with increasing temperature and it
cor = H cor =
vanishes at the critical temperature of solvent (Ghyd
series of perturbation effects due to: (i) insertion of a material hyd
cor
Cp,hyd = 0, T Tc ) thus providing integration constant for Eq.
point into water solvent (VSS = RTw ), (ii) growing it to a water-
like molecule with size adjusted to mimic the intrinsic volume of mod is available, the model equa-
(24). Once the expression for Ghyd
a solute (d(Vw RTw )), and (iii) then changing its potential eld tion for the entropy of hydration also required in Eq. (22) is simply
from solventsolvent to solutesolvent interaction. This last con- obtained as
tribution is modeled by the third term on the right-hand side of
Eq. (23) that is purely empirical. This equation has correct limiting
mod
Ghyd
behavior, i.e. it reduces to the virial equation truncated after the mod
Shyd = (26)
second virial coefcient at low densities and diverges at the critical T
p
point of water [16].
Since the process of hydration is dened as an isothermal trans- mod , S mod and other thermody-
Full expressions for Ghyd hyd
fer of a solute molecule from an ideal gas state at pref = 0.1 MPa to
aqueous solution at a pressure p it is possible to write the Gibbs namic functions within the SOCW model can be found in
energy of hydration as Appendix A.
The ve parameters a, b, c, d, e of the temperature and pres-
0 p sure dependent model are obtained for hydrocarbons (NC > 1) from
mod
Ghyd = RT d ln p + Vs dp + Ghyd
cor
(24) the group contributions tabulated in Table 2. Each parameter for
pref 0 the solute of interest is calculated as a linear combination of the
Table 3
Survey of the database of experimental values
CH4 45 17 6 18
CO2 73 1 7 17
H2 S 27 1 9 19
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Table 5
Henrys law constants calculated along the saturation line of water and at elevated
pressures from the presented model for octane, methane, carbon dioxide and hydro-
gen sulde
n-Octane
psat 9.60 11.25 9.77 6.73
10 10.21 11.78 10.20 6.82
40 12.02 13.36 11.69 8.51
80 14.42 15.43 13.58 10.45
CH4
psat 8.28 8.79 8.20 7.07
Ref. [17] at psat 8.28 8.77 8.20 7.09
Ref. [63] at psat 8.33 8.82 8.27 7.12
10 8.43 8.92 8.32 7.10
40 8.88 9.32 8.73 7.70
80 9.49 9.83 9.24 8.30
CO2
psat 5.11 6.23 6.34 5.78
Ref. [17] at psat 5.11 6.23 6.35 5.81
Fig. 1. The Henrys law constants calculated along the saturation line of water from Ref. [63] at psat 5.08 6.27 6.50 5.98
the group contribution model [15] for C8 hydrocarbons: n-octane (full), 1-octene 10 5.25 6.36 6.45 5.81
(long-dashed), ethylcyclohexane (short-dashed) and ethylbenzene (dashed-dot 40 5.66 6.72 6.82 6.32
line). 80 6.22 7.20 7.28 6.84
H2 S
psat 3.99 5.08 5.32 4.96
Ref. [17] at psat 3.99 5.03 5.33 5.00
Ref. [63] at psat 3.99 5.08 5.23 4.78
10 4.13 5.21 5.42 4.98
40 4.55 5.58 5.79 5.45
80 5.12 6.07 6.25 5.95
Comparison for CH4 , CO2 and H2 S at psat with the values (in italics) calculated from
the formulations of Fernandez-Prini et al. [17] and of Akinev and Diamond [63].
Fig. 3. The Henrys law constants calculated along the saturation line of water from Fig. 4. The Henrys law constants for carbon dioxide calculated as a function of
the presented model for methane (full), carbon dioxide (long-dashed) and hydrogen temperature along the saturation line of water (full) and at pressures of 40 MPa
sulde (short-dashed line). (long-dashed) and 80 MPa (short-dashed line).
72 V. Majer et al. / Fluid Phase Equilibria 272 (2008) 6574
Table 6
Ratios KH (p)/KH (psat
w ) for octane, methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulde
KH (p)/KH (psat
w ) w 0.1 MPa)
323 K (psat w 0.1 MPa)
373 K (psat w 1.6 MPa)
473 K (psat w 8.7 MPa)
573 K (psat
10 MPa 50 MPa 100 MPa 10 MPa 50 MPa 100 MPa 10 MPa 50 MPa 100 MPa 10 MPa 50 MPa 100 MPa
the difference in the Vs values (about 100 cm3 /mol for C8 H18 and instead of fugacity. This simplifying assumption of an ideal gas
close to 35 cm3 /mol for the three gases at 298.15 K). At superambi- behavior of the vapor phase can lead to an increase of uncertainty
ent conditions, the standard molar volume increases substantially in Kd at high temperatures where the fugacity coefcient of water
with increasing temperature and decreases with pressure, it scales can differ signicantly from unity.
approximately with the compressibility of water and diverges at The code is available on request as shareware for non-
the critical point of the solvent. For the pressures dependence of commercial users from academia (contacts: vladimir.majer@univ-
KH the increase in volume at high temperatures is, however, partly bpclermont.fr and josef.sedlbauer@tul.cz). The preparation of input
compensated by dividing with temperature in Eq. (9). Therefore, les, the operation of the code and a few illustrative examples of
the relative pressure effect on KH does not change much with tem- the input and output les are described in the README document
perature at conditions remote from the critical point of water. that is distributed along with the software.
w aqueous phase
w
+(exp[w ]1) c exp +Rc exp
2
standard state of innite dilution T T T T3
limiting value
2
pure compound w
+RT (b exp[w ] + exp[w ])
T
p
Subscripts
c relating to molarity 2 w
cor e(T Tc )2
The authors thank Roberto Fernandez-Prini and Jorge L. Alvarez Cp,hyd = (A.5)
T
for providing the direct values of the Henrys law constant for CH4 , 2
CO2 and H2 S used for establishing parameters of the correlations cor Tc2 T (Tc ) T
Shyd =e T Tc ln + ln (A.6)
published in ref. [17]. J.S. acknowledges the support by the Research Tc Tc
Centre Advanced Remediation Technologies and Processes.
1 2
cor
Appendix A. Thermodynamic functions of hydration from Hhyd = e (2Tc )(Tc T ) + (T Tc2 )
2
the SOCW model T
2
+(Tc ) ln (A.7)
The Gibbs energy of hydration is expressed in the SOCW model Tc
[16] as:
RT RT cor
Ghyd cor
= (Hhyd cor
T Shyd ) (A.8)
w ig w
Ghyd = RT ln + d Gw Gw RT ln
Mw pref Mw pref
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