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Chemical Equilibrium
• In general the combustion products consist of more than just CO2, H2O, O2, and N2
• For rich mixtures CO also exists in the products and at high temperatures the molecules dissociate to form H, O, OH, NO via the following reactions:
NONOOHOHOOHH 2 2 2 2 222222
• At equilibrium the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the backward reaction.
NONOOHOHOOHH 2 2 2 2 222222
• The opposite direction reactions are also possible
222222 2 2 2O 2 NONOOHOHOHH
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Chemical Equilibrium• At equilibrium the relative proportion of the species mole fraction is fixed
• For the general equilibrium reaction
• The equilibrium composition for species CD is given by:
DnCnBnAn DcBA
BADC
BA
DCnnnn
refnB
nA
nD
nC
P
P
XX
XXTK
)(
where K is the equilibrium constant which is tabulated as a function of temperature for different equilibrium reactions, Pref is 1 atm and P is in units of atmospheres.
DCBA
AA nnnn
nXNote
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222222 )76.3)(4
( fHeCOdNObHaCONOHC
Chemical EquilibriumRecall that for a rich mixture (<1) the reaction equation could not be balanced (5 unknowns a, b, d, e, f and only 4 atom balance equations for C,H,O,N ) even if we neglect dissociation (i.e., low product temperature)
If the product species CO2, H2O, CO and H2 are at equilibrium and described by the water-gas reaction:
OHCOHCO 222
The equilibrium constant for this reaction provides the fifth equation :
atm 1 )(22
2
Pfa
be
XX
XXTK
HCO
OHCO
Note K is tabulated as a function of T
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Chemical Equilibrium (example)
1 kmol of CO2, ½ kmol of O2 and ½ kmol of N2 reacts to form a mixtureconsisting of CO2, CO, O2, N2 and NO at 3000K and 1 atm. Determine theequilibrium composition of the product mixture.
222222 2/12/1 eNdOcCObNOaCONOCO
3000K and 1 atm
C 1 = a+c c = 1 - aO 3 = a+b+2c+2d d = 1/2(1 + a - b) N 1 = b+2e e = 1/2(1 - b)
Have 2 unknowns a, b so need 2 equilibrium equations
K)(KNONO
K)(KOCOCO
3000 2/12/1 .2
3000 2/1 .1
222
122
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ntot= a+b+c+d+e = a+b+(1-a)+1/2(1+a-b)+1/2(1-b) = (4+a)/2
)(a
ba
a
a
X
XXK
CO
OCO 1 4
1
13273.0
2/12/1
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2
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2/)4( 22 a
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a
baX
a
aX COOCO
Chemical Equilibrium (example)
2
2
2/1
1 3273.0CO
OCO
X
XXK
From the equilibrium constant expression
Substituting yields:
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Solving equations 1 and 2 yields:
a= 0.3745 b= 0.0675
From the atom balance equations get:
c= 0.6255 d= 0.6535 e= 0.4663
)(
bba
b
XX
XK
NO
NO 2 )1)(1(
21222.0 2/12/12/12
22
Chemical Equilibrium (example)
Similarly for the second equilibrium reaction
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kNjNOiOHhOgH
fHeCOdOcNObHaCONOHC
)76.3)(4
( 2222222
• If the products are at high temperature (>2000K) minor species will be present due to the dissociation of the major species CO2, H2O, N2 and O2.
• Hand calculations are not practical when many species are considered, one uses a computer program to calculate product equilibrium composition.
Role of Equilibrium Solvers
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