Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 58. No. 13, pp. 2789-2798, 1994 Copyright 0 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037194 $6.00 + .w Pergamon zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA 0016-7037(94~0078-6 Distribution of solutes between coexisting steam and water JORGE ALVAREZ,HORACK)R. CORTI, ROBERTO~RN~NDEZ-PR~NI, zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIH and M. LAURA JAPAS Departamento Quimica de Reactores, Comisi6n National de Energia Atcimica,Av. Libertador 8250, 1429~CapitalFederal, Argentina Abstract-For a thorough description of aqueous systems with coexisting liquid-vapor phases, it is necessary to have a means of describing the concentration of solutes in the two-fluid phases over a wide temperature range. A genera1 procedure is presented which allows the description of the distribution ratio of solutes at infinite dilution (k;l) between water and steam over all the range of coexistence of the two-fluid phases. The procedure has been employed for many different solutes, e.g., nonreactive gases, reactive gases, nonionic, and ionic solutes. For the gaseous solutes a formulation is given which allows the calculation of K. over the complete temperature range with good precision. to describe the tem~mture dependence of the dist~bution of various solutes in dilute aqueous solutions. The solutes THE DISTRIBUTION OFSOLUTES between steam and water over considered here will cover nonpolar nonreactive gases, gases the entire temperature range of vapor-liquid coexistence, inwhich undergo protolytic equilib~a zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZ in dense water, simple cluding the region close to zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA T,, (374.i°C), is a property of electrolytes and, finally, a three-component reactive system. great practical importance. Areas of interest include the power Emphasis will be laid upon the establishment of one common industry which makes use of the steam-water cycle, as well method for the analysis of all these systems over the complete as the study of natural geological systems where the migration range of coexistence of water and steam. In spite of the conof substances is produced in many cases via liquid-gas transfer venience of having such a general procedure, this goal is selfollowed then by the transport of the solutes dissolved in dom met; consequently the present work constitutes a singular steam. There is also a demand for distribution ratios in order example, albeit an important and useful one, of such a general to complete the thermodynamic description of natural systhermodynamic method which may be used to describe the tems which are relevant to geochemists, e.g., hot springs on behavior of multicom~nent systems. It is worth emphasizing the seafloor, geothermal systems, and fluid inclusions involve that this work does not pretend to be an exhaustive survey the presence of gases in equilibrium with subcritical water. of data; whenever critical reviews existed, we have used them On the other hand, the physical chemistry of these systems to give quantitative formulations which represent the availis of great interest because it gives information on the effect able data over the complete range of existence of liquid water. of density on the macroscopic properties and how these For those systems where the data is scarce or when a previous properties change when the critical region is approached. The critical evaluation would be required, we only attempted a infinite dilution value of the concentration ratio is related to more limited formulation applicable to the high temperature the difference of standard chemical potential of the solute in region. steam to that in liquid water. This quantity reflects the change DISCUSSION in chemical potential when the solute at infinite dilution is transferred from the low density vapor to the dense liquid Thermodynamics phase; it is a process equivalent to the transfer of solutes at Let US consider first gaseous solutes which have weak ininfinite diiution between different solvent media, i.e., the teraction with the solvent, e.g.. hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, medium effect. noble gases, light hydrocarbons. The best way to describe the The recent proposal of an asymptotic expression for the transfer of gaseous solutes from the vapor to the liquid phase distribution ratio (JAPAS and LEVELTSENGERS, 1989), i.e., is through Henry’s constant defined as the limiting value of an expression which is valid in the vicinity of the solvent’s the ratio of solute fugacity (fi) to its mole fraction (x) in the critical point, which unexpectedly was found to apply for nonionic solutes over a very wide range of solvent densities liquid in equilibrium with the vapor phase when the solution becomes infinitely dilute (FERNANDEZ-PRINI et al., 1992) (equivalent to a range of temperature of 150 K), is a very valuable cont~bution to enable a predictive formulation of the behavior of these systems over the complete liquid-vapor k,” = limf2. (1) x-0 x coexistence space. A first report (FERNANDEZ-PRINIet al., 1993a) showing that the asymptotic relation holds also for In this way Henry’s constant is related to the difference of electrolytes, has undoubtedly extended the interest in the standard chemical potential of the solute between the vapor, general application of this approach to describe the ther&, and the liquid, & phases, and it is only temperature modynamic behavior of aqueous (as well as nonaqueous) dependent. Thus, systems. In the present work we shall apply a general thermodynamic procedure which has been developed in our laboratory 2789 J. Alvarez et al 7790 The reference state in the vapor phase is the ideal gaseous solute and that in the liquid phase the solute at infinite dilution. Considering the conditions which prevail when two-fluid phases in a binary system coexist at a temperature 7‘ and a total pressure p, the thermodynamic analysis yields (FERNANDEZ-PRINI et al., 1992) where p: is the solvent vapor pressure, y is the mole fraction of gas in the vapor phase, G2 its fugacity coefficient, and -&’ and F the solute’s activity coefficient and the infinite dilution partial molar volume in the liquid phase, respectively. Usually the quantities available through experiment are the pressure, the temperature, and X; only seldom the compositions of both phases in equilibrium are known with sufficient precision. Therefore, it is better (FERNANDEZ-PRINI and CROVETTO, 1985) to rely only on the composition of the liquid phase and use thermodynamic relationships, i.e.. equations of state, to calculate y. The other quantities in Eqn. 3 are not obtained through measurement; they require either an equation of state for the binary system (&, y) or a model calculation ($‘, @). We have shown that a self-consistent iterative procedure may be carried out (ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZPRINI, 1991) to obtain the values of Henry’s constants from the experimental (p, T, x) data at high temperature. In spite of this success, in the region close to the critical point of water, say for temperatures above 580 K, this method of calculation has an increasing uncertainty. This is due to experimental difficulties as well as to an increasing imprecision in the equation of state and in the quantities calculated theoretically with the model. A quantity which is of direct practical interest is the distribution ratio, Qu = y/x, which according to Eqn. 3 is related to kg by On the other hand, the distribution ratio at infinite dilution which is only temperature dependent may be expressed by the difference of solute standard chemical potential. which allows the calculation of KD from the knowledge 01 the properties of the solvent and the change of total pressure with the composition of the solution (FERNAUDEZ-PKINI et al., 1993a). Thus, k;, = which refer to infinite dilution but ut the two d&erent densities ofthe coexistingfluidphases. This contrasts with Eqn. 2 which relates In k,” to the standard state of the ideal gaseous solute. According constant, -/ ‘dg) ~- I’,(‘) zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba !. 1 where the subscript u indicates vapor-liquid coexistence and J’, denotes the molar volume of water. A derivation of this expression is given in the Appendix. As shown by Eqn. 7. this way of calculating KD does not require the use of an equation of state or of model calculations, and this is certainly a very important advantage since, in contrast with the iterative calculation of kg with Eqn. 3, the validity of Eqn. 7 is not limited to a given temperature range and it may even be used close to the critical region. This equation is quite convenient when the solute is more volatile than the solvent. i.e., when k;, $ 1. However, for the case of solid solutes. and especially for electrolytes, Eqn. 7 cannot be used since RI, 4 1. implying that the second term in the rhs will be very close to -~ izyxwvutsrqpon and the resulting Ku will have a rather large uncertainty. In that case the expression to be used is which may be obtained from Eqn. 7 by interchanging the symbols corresponding to the vapor and the liquid phases. JAPAS and LEVELT SENGERS (1989) derived expressions for kg and for KD which should become asymptotically valid as the solvent’s critical point is being approached. These are and RT ln KU = &G(J) - p?(g)). (lo] where/‘? is the solvent fugacity, and p: and pL, the solvent density at T and critical density, respectively. Taking into account the law of rectilinear diameters zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfe (ROWLINSON and SWINTON, 1982) which is obeyed in the vicinity ofthe critical point. the previous expression becomes In K1, = 2&&I) p,, \. !II: It has been observed that the linear behavior Indicated by Eqns. 9 and 11 extends far away from the critical point ot the solvent. The B coefficient in Eqns. 9- 1 I is related to the critical slope of the pressure as function of composition, to Eqn. 4 and 5, KD is simply related to Henry’s k,” = K,@ Fp:. (6) that, in principle, it is possible to obtain the same information from any of the two quantities, k; or k;,, both referring to the infinitely dilute solution. From the thermodynamic equations characterizing vaporliquid equilibrium it is also possible to obtain an expression So + R7 RT Thus, In KD is related to the difference of solute’s standard chemical potentials in the liquid and in the vapour phases 1 It is particularly convenient to use Eqn. II because the limiting value of KD = 1 when 7’ -+ Tc,, is clearly established and, in principle, a single experimental datum would suffice to draw the straight line which characterizes the asymptotic behavior for a given system. In the case of Eqn. 9, the calculation of the limiting value for T = T,, requires the use of an equation of state to calculate the coefficient :l, because .,I = RT,, In (+pz”/@y). 2791 Distribution of solute between steam and water It should be mentioned that at present there is no means p?(l) - PC, = i ajti’3, (13) zyxwvutsrqp of establishing theoretically the range over which the previous i=l relations should hold; this can only be established by experiment. There is however evidence suggesting that the asympwhere t = 1 - T/T,,. The polynomial takes into account the totic linear relations apply over a wider temperature range known critical exponent of the temperature dependence of when there is a big difference of volatility between both comfluid density along the coexistence curve; it reproduces ponents, e.g., for isotopic mixtures the linear range may be p:(l) within 0.05 mol dmm3 over the temperature range [500 very small (JAPASet al., 1994). The careful study of the sysK to T,,]. Obviously the coefficients of Eqn. 13, which are tems HZ-H20 and N2-Hz0 (ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZ- zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIH reported in Table 1, do not depend on the particular solute. PRINI, 1991) suggest that in the high-temperature region a The following expression was used to describe the vaporconservative estimate of the difference between the value liquid distribution ratio of the solutes: predicted with the linear relation and the experimental data is 10% in KD. In K. = .A + g i o$i3 In the present work the values required for the thermo1 ,=I dynamic properties of water have been taken from HAAR et al. (1984). + zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQ (C + DtZJ3 + Et) exp Volatile Solutes Nonreactive where the coefficients ~4, B’, C, D, and E are specific for each system. The first coefficient is not independent, since Ko( Tc,) = 1. hence gases A survey of Henry’s constants for nonreactive nonpolar gases dissolved in water over wide temperature ranges has been recently published (FERNANDEZ-PRINIand CROVETTO, 1989). The information available in the literature was critically analyzed and then processed in such a way that data from different sources could be evaluated on the same footing. For the HZ-H20 and Nz-HZ0 systems, Henry’s constants were taken from ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZ-PRINI(199 1). In order to calculate K. from Henry’s constant using Eqn. 6 we have used the PENG and ROBINSON(1976, 1980) equation of state with the values of the cross-interaction parameter recommended by FERNANDEZ-PRINIand CROVE?TO(1989). On the basis of the discussion in the previous section, it is possible to propose a formulation for the infinite dilution distribution ratio of gases between water and steam of very wide applicability and which we shall extend below to other solutes. Since it would be practically more valuable to have a formulation for In K. as function of temperature rather than of solvent density, we have proceeded in the following way. The density of water in equilibrium with steam between T,, and 500 K was fitted to a polynomial of the form .A = -Cexp 273.15 - (T,,IK) 100.0 = _oo23719C, The exponential term in Eqn. 14 was suggested by HARVEY and LEVELT SENGERS( 1990) as a means of describing the low-temperature region which is far from T,,. Table 1 reports the coefficients for inert gases, HZ, 02, N2, and CH4 dissolved in H20. It also reports in the last column the value of the coefficient zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPO 2B/R obtained by fitting Eqn. 11 to the data corresponding to T 2 500 K; it is seen that this coefficient is numerically quite close to B’ obtained when the complete set of available data were fitted by Eqn. 14, a fact that lends strong support to the functionality chosen for Eqn. 14. The capacity of this equation to fit the data over the whole liquidvapor coexistence range, from the triple to the critical temperatures, with a standard deviation which is only slightly greater than that of much more limited formulations (FERNANDEZ-PRINIand CROVETTO, 1989) is quite remarkable. In order to test the procedure just described for the calculation of KD from k,“, we have used the information avail- Table 1, zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA Coefficients of equations (11) and (14) for various gas-Hz0 systems. Values of ai in equation (13) are expressed in mol dm-s. I B’ ICI I D E 1 a% 1 2B/R K drr?/mol K dm3/mol 123.1941 -75.125 298.827 -234.117 7.2 125.8 135.4272 -75.673 276.266 -209.698 1.6 134.0 127.0588 -57.183 215.804 -168.732 1.8 128.7 124.4726 -87.907 336.754 -262.606 2.7 123.3 113.7488 -7.005 36.593 -37.225 11.5 112.0 131.2241 -17.736 68.965 -58.713 3.8 128.8 124.0282 -45.876 174.752 -136.283 6.4 122.9 125.1614 4.834 -20.824 11.283 7.6 123.2 119.6366 13.836 -42.998 23.839 4.4 119.2 90.7449 31.834 -113.528 79.614 7.2 89.0 (21 = 35.0511 (12 = 23.5673 CIs=-6.1704 (14 =-3.6825 J. Alvarez et al 2792 able from phase diagram studies for the N2-HZ0 and 02H20 systems to calculate the values of zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA KD with Eqn. 7 (FERNANDEZ-PRINI et al., 1993b). For that purpose. the vapor pressure of the dilute solutions for each isotherm was fitted The second factor in the rhs member of Eqn. 15 gives the with a power series in the solute concentration in the liquid primary effect of pressure, the third factor corrects for nonphase, X; the linear coefficient gives the value of (dpldx-)F,,. ideality, and the last one takes account of the effect of pressure It was found that the linear term was independent of the upon the chemical potential of the dissolved solute. Obviously degree of the polynomial used if the composition was reit is necessary to use an equation of state to calculate the stricted to the range x 5 1 a5 lO_‘. fugacity coefficients of the solute and to have a value for Figure 1 shows the plot of T In KD for NZ-H20 and 02CT, normally $? is close to unity and can be neglected below Hz0 systems against the difference between the water density 580 K (ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZ-PRINI, 1991) if the gas at T and the critical density of water; according to Eqn. 1I solubility is not too large. T In KD should be asymptotically linear in the water density. In Fig. 1 the values of KD calculated with (@/LIx-);,, according to Eqn. 7 are also plotted. For the case of the N2-Hz0 system Natural systems containing gases which undergo protolyttc the isothermal solubility of the gas over a sufficiently wide equilibria in water are ofgreat practical interest. These systems range of pressures (ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZ-PRINI. 199 1) contain several solute species in one or in both of the cueiwere used to calculate the quantity (dp/d.x)F,, at the two temisting phases; hence, Ku may be defined in several ways. all peratures that were studied. For the 02-HZ0 system, the exrelated through the equilibrium reaction constants. We define perimental data were taken from the phase diagram study of KIj in terms of those solute species which predominate in the system (JAPAS and FRANCK, 1985). It may be seen that each phase at the extrapolated conditions. Thus. the distnthe linear behavior extends over a very wide range of tembution of COZ, NHj, and H2S between steam and water will peratures (about 150 K), and that the data obtained from the be described in terms of the unionized solute species in both change of pressure with composition follow the asymptotic phases since in pure water these solutes are dissociated to a linear behavior over that temperature range as well as those negligible extent. On the other hand, for the case of HCI the calculated with Henry’s constants. definition of KD will take into account the fact that it is apWith Eqns. 4 and 6 it is possible to calculate the solubility preciably dissociated in water, but associated in steam. of the gases at a finite gas pressure: thus, The binary system CO*--Hz0 has been studied by many authors; however, the values of lig do not provide an unequivocal set of data, especially at high temperatures, con200 100 300 370 350 sequently the behavior could not be unambiguously cstab5l lished (FERNANDEZ-PRINI et al.. 1992). (I‘Rov~ i-1.0 and WOOD (1992) have reported recently values of kg at three N,-H,O 4 temperatures which are very close to 7,,. llsing the PENG and ROBINSON (1976) equation of state and the values of &, we have calculated the infinite dilution distribution ratio. When the whole set of solubility data is plotted as 7’ In k,., against solvent density, the three data points of C~ovt:r IO and WOOD (1992) show a small but appreciable deviation from the straight line which goes through zero at pc,, this is I illustrated in Fig. 2. However the linear dependence of 1.’in 40 30 10 20 0 k;, with solvent density seems to be supported by the calucs (pi-p,l)/(mol dm-‘) of KD determined with Eqn. 7 employing the values ot (a~/&)?;, obtained from the study of T Alit:.UOM HI and ----1 zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA KENNEDY (1964). 4 Oz-W’ The fact that the values of & calculated using the data of CROVFTTO and WOOD (1992) give negative deviations which Q 3increase in magnitude when T,, is approached. strongly sugc gests that these deviations are due to the neglect of the solute’s L 7 2activity coefficient 77, which is smaller than unity at high a temperatures. Using the perturbation theory equation proposed by ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZ-PRINI ( 1991), it was possible to estimate the contribution of the solute’s action! coefficient (Eqns. 4 and 6) to 7’ In KIj. The correction was 30 zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA calculated for the three values of k;i reported by C~ovt.r~ o bi-p,t)/(mol dm-3) and WOOD ( 1992) using self-consistent values for the hardFIG. I. Tin KD(in K) against p: - pCI, the difference between the sphere equivalent diameters. These corrections resulted in a pure solvent’s liquid density and its critical value. 0 and 0: data shift of 93, 107, and 161 K for 7’In k; at 62.1. 631.7, and from gas solubility measurements using Eqns. 3 and 6. +: points 642.7 K, respectively, with a conservative estimate of their obtained with Eqn. 7. Temperatures in Celsius are given in the top scale. uncertainty of ?30 K. ov 51- o---G Dist~bution of solute between steam and water 2793 portedby KISHIMA (1989). Two points which were calculated 3 5 c : 0 2 1 0 0 10 20 30 40 (pi-pcl)/(moldm-3) from the phase diagram study of CARROLL and MATHER (1989) using Eqn. 7 have been included in the plot; the agreement with the solubility data is extremely satisfying. HCl is the most reactive substance of this group of solutes. In the dense phase it exists essentially in the form of dissociated ions. In order to determine the distribution ratio for HCl, the data of SIMoNsoN and PALMER( 1993) for the equilibrium concentmtions in steam and water have been used. In agreement with the SIMONSON and PALMER(1993) tmatment, it was assumed that HCl is associated in the aqueous gas phase while it is ionized in liquid water. Therefore, it is convenient to consider the following equilibrium for the distribution of HCl: FIG. 2. Same graph as in Fig. 1 for the CO*-HZ0 system. 0: calculated from gas solubility data; +: points obtained with Eqn. 7; 0: data from CROVETTOand zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA WOOD (1992) uncorrected; n : same zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA as H+(aq) -+-Cl-(aq) + HCl(g), previous corrected for solute activity coefficient. 350 After correcting for the solute’s activity coeffi~ent, KD calculated with the gas solubility data and those obtained from the change of pressure with composition agree very well; this is very rewarding and an important support for the procedure we employ to evaluate solute distribution between steam and water. The convenience of calculating the infinite dilution distribution ratio with Eqn. 7, whenever this is possible, becomes quite clear since this procedure does not require either a knowledge of $ or of QY’.However it must be realized that the uncertainty of the information from the phase diagrams is in general bigger than that of the gas solubility data. On the other hand, the successful and consistent description of the distribution in the CO2-H20 system, lends support to the semi-empirical iterative method proposed by ALVAREZ and FERNANDEZ-PRINI (199 1) for the systems HZ-H20 and Nz-HzO. Table 1 also reports the coefficients of Eqn. 14 for CO*HzO. For this purpose all the high temperature data illustrated in Fig. 2 were employed and for the low-temperature region the data compiled by WILHELM et al. (1977) were used. It should be mentioned that for all these systems we have verified, whenever possible, that the values of the slopes 3 according to Eqn. 11 agree with those calculated with Eqn. 12 from the information of the critical line, indicated by subscript crl, using the relation of KRICHEVSKH (1967): 300 200 (16) 100 1.2 'NH,-Hz0 0.9 - 3.0 2.5 _W-W’ 40 (pi-p,l)/(mol t dm? HCL-H,O 4 However, the uncertainty in zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA (apfdx)$?j obtained from the critical line was larger than that of the slopes obtained by 2 plotting Tin ic, against solvent density. Figure 3 shows the plots of T In iu, against p:(l) - pFl for NHJ, HIS, and HCI aqueous solutions. The distribution of 0 ammonia between steam and water at high temperatures has been determined by JONES (1963) and his data are plotted -2 I in Fig. 3. In the case of H$-H20, the curve in Fig. 3 cor30 41 0 10 20 responds to the equation given by LEE and MATHER (1977) (pi-p,i)/(moI dm? for In kg as function of temperature. The calculation of KD FIG. 3. Same graphasin Fig. 1.NH,-H20, 0 (JONES,1993). H$from them was done using the coefficients of the Peng-RobH20, 0 (KISHIMA, 1989). 0~ points obtained with Eqn. 7. Heavy inson-Stryek-Vera equation of state reported by CARROLL curve: from LEEand MATHER(I 977). HCI-H20, 0 (SIMONSON and PALMER,1993). and MATHER ( 1989). The open symbol denotes the data re- 1794 J. Alvarer et al. constant IYn(HCl): zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA though they did not cover regions very close to the criticat point. SIMONSONand PAUVZER (1993) extrapolated their data m&g) and reported for the same quantity the value 9300 K. On Kn (HCI) = (17) m,.,*(l)mc,-(l)+Y . account of this scatter in the values reported for I5 thr value. we obtained by linear extrapolation (cf. Fig. 3’)appears ver: where m,(l) and vn,(g) denote the molality of solute species i reasonable. in the coexisting liquid and vapor phases. respectively. In The slopes of the straight lines of I‘ ln i\!, against watitl Eqn. 17 it has been assumed that the activity coefficient of density are reported in Table 7 for NH+ fl?S. and Hc’l in HCI in steam is unity. water. For these systems the only information that has hem Figure 4 illustrates the behavior observed at 573 K for the fitted is that corresponding to the high tempcraturc range ;t> HCI-HZ0 system. At room temperature such a plot has been indicated in column 3. a textbook exampie to show that HCI is ionized in liquid water while it is a covalent compound in the vapor phase. Ionic Solutes The fact that the modality of HCI in the vapor is linearly In order to obtain information about the distribution ut related to the square of the mean activity of HCl(aq). as ilelectrolytes between steam and water, we haye made use ut lustrated by Fig. 4, implies that HCl dissociates in the dense the scarce ex~~rnental information available for NaCl and fluid phase. The data suggest that the assumption about the KC1 which. consequently. is ofgreat value. KH \fiX:i 1.1%and different speciation of HCI in each fluid phase remains valid &~RlWV (1966) have reported the equilibrium concentl-ation even close to the critical point of water. of the two electrolytes in the liquid and vapor solvent phases. For HCl it is also verified that the linear behavior of 7‘ In On the other hand BISCHOFFand PIYZEK(1989) have ana-. KI, with p?(l) applies over a wide range of temperatures, as lyzed critically the available data for ?iaCL including thasc shown in Fig. 3. It is clear that the quantity &AHCl). denoting ofthe first authors. These sources form the basis upon which the equilibrium constant for reaction (16). will not go to unit) we have elaborated our analysis of the distribution of iom: at r,,. rather it will tend to the value of the equilibrium consolutes between water and steam; an additional source stant for the association of HCI in a fluid having the properties (KIISKE, 198 I ) could not be used for the reasons discussed of water at the critical point. i,c.. with the equilib~um H+(fl) + Cl-(fl) * HCQff). (IX) That is. Eqn. 11 becomes below. In order to obtain Kn it is necessary to extrapolate the data to infinite dilution. The success of the extrapolation proctxiur~ will depend on the concentration range of the available data. the procedure being more successful when the experimental concentration range covers a more dilute region. For NaC‘! and @ = L&,in &,(HC1, 7,,). and KCI the most dilute solution where information aboui The linear extrapolation of the data in Fig. 3 gives for (_ the liquid-vapor compositions is available is 0. I modal salt the value 79.50 + 50 K, which should be compared to 8800 in the liquid phase; in spite of this limitation the plots ft-ep i: 50 K obtained by SIMONSON and PALMER(I 993) with a resentative examples are illustrated in Fig. 5) strongly suggcsl nonlinear extrapolation of the same data. that the correct extrapolation is in terms of equal powers of There are two sources of ~onductimetri~ data for HCI in the concentrations in the vapor and in the liquid phases. Thlz supercritical water which give direct information on the disimplies that the infinite dilution standard states in the vapor sociation constant. FRANCK (I 956) has studied a wide range and liquid phases obtained by extrapolation i)f the cxperioftemperature and density which extended to the near-critical mental data (cf. Eqn. 5) refer to the same species in both region. We have extrapolated his data to the critical point of fluid phases, i.e., individual ions. If the infinite dilution vaiues water obtaining @ = (7000 + 200) K. The other source of obtained by extrapolation corresponded to associated ions 111 conductimetric data is the more recent work of FRANI z and the vapor and dissociated ions in the liquid, the distribution MARSHALL(1984) zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA who reinvestigated the same system, alratio at infinite dilutions should be obtained b> a linear estrapofation of the square root of the concentration in ~apttr _._.. _,._..__ ._~. , i,,,; 0.6 r---against the concentration of salt in the tiquid. as it aas the $w: ,.I i case for HCI (Eqn. 17 and Fig. 3). Moreover the rxtrapolatetl ; value of the concentration in the vapor as function of the liquid phase concentration does not go to zero when the square root of the NaCl concentration in the vapor ic plotted against the tiquid phase coll~entration (Fig. 5h.c). tt is important to remark that the choice ofstandard state5 does not imply that the ions are fully dissociated in the actual RTtn KI, = Z&$(l) - /-1,:) i P (113) solutions, but that even when associated in the vapor phase there are enough free ions to yield by extrapofation the value FIG. 4. Vapor concentration of HCI in aqueous solutions against the mean activity of HCI in the liquid phase for 573 K (SIMONXX and PALMER, 1993). Concentrations are given in the modality scale. cl: right ordinates, A: left ordinates. corresponding to a dissociated infinitely dilute clectroiytc. Other authors have considered that ion association in the vapour phase is so large that the standard state obtained b> extrapolation of the experimental points corresponds to an associated ion-pair in steam (cf. T~NGER and Pt I DR. IQW!. 2795 Distribution of solute between steam and water Table 2. Coefficients of equation (11) and temperature range of fitting for various solutes. 2BJR ‘I’,,, K dm3/mol K 473-590 HCI” 30.3f0.5 77.4f0.2 -267zt2 NaCl -337*3 573-646 KC1 -373*1 573-643 NH3 HzS 473-603 373-623 (a) For HCI equation zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHG (lla) was used tribution ratio QD = y/x to zero concentration using only In order to obtain the values of zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA KD for NaCl the data for points for concentrations in the liquid phase lower than 2 a given isotherm were plotted as function of pressure. At low molal, the lowest concentration in the liquid phase being 0.1 temperature it was possible to extrapolate the observed dismolal. For the isotherms above 623 K a relatively strong increase of QD with dilution was observed, in these cases the reciprocal of the distribution ratio was almost quadratic in the difference of water vapor pressure between the pure sol573 K vent and the solution. For the case of KCl, the only available source (KHAIBULLIN and BORISOV, 1966) reported values of (a) QD which did not show any particular trend with solute concentration. Moreover there were only three points for concentrations lower than 2 molal. Consequently the KC1 data were averaged to obtain the infinite dilution value. It is our contention that the deviation of experimental points, except at the highest temperatures, reflects the experimental difficulty 0, ,u, ;, ( a,a, of such measurements rather than a trend in concentration. 012345671 For NaCl it has been possible to calculate KD with Eqn. 8 also, using the phase diagram information available in the m,,,,(l) same two sources; this was not the case of KC1 because there 2 . . were too few points to allow a reasonable extrapolation to -. infinite dilution. For NaCI-H20, the isothermal vapor pressure of the solutions was fitted using second and third degree 0 0 . 0 polynomials in the vapor phase composition y. Similar results 0 for the linear term were obtained provided y 5 5 10e7 at 573 1 g K and y 5 10e4 for 643 K. This is in agreement with the expectations considering the increase in dissociated NaCl in (b) 573 K the vapor phase as the temperature, and consequently the density of steam, increases (cf. Fig. 5). ,“/‘, Figure 6 is a plot of T In KD for NaCLH20 and KCI-HI0 012345671 against the solvent density. It may be seen that for the two mNac,o) ) electrolytes the linear behavior is closely followed over the complete temperature range that was studied, the lowest temperature considered was 573 K because at lower tem0 -D 0 a 0 0” zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA peratures the analytic information from the vapor phase is i 0 very unreliable. In the case of NaCl the points obtained from 0 l ’ . zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA the extrapolated analytical concentration ratio defines the e 0 same straight line as those obtained from the slope of the -4 l 4 0 . pressure as function of vapor composition. The slopes of the 0 (cl straight lines in Fig. 6 for NaCl and KCI are reported in Table . 623 K 0 2. The values reflect the fact that KC1 is less volatile than : NaCI. The slopes determined with the value of (@/&x)$$ 0 calculated from the equation of state reported by HOVEY et 1.2 1.6 2.0 0.4 0.8 0.0 al. (1990) were -294 and -324 K. dm3 - mol-‘, respectively, T+.,,(l) for NaCl and KCI. The differences between the two pairs of FIG. 5. Vapor concentration and distribution quotients of salt in values is not large; moreover, the equation of state of HOVEY the NaCl-Hz0 system against liquid phase concentration (given in et al. (I 990) was obtained by fitting data of several properties the molality scale). Open symbols, right ordinates; filled-in symbols. of the NaCI-HZ0 system and perhaps does not reflect with left ordinates. (a) and (b) 573 K isotherm. (c) 623 K isotherm. ,?rg, I OI?““,“““““‘,‘J . . I J. Alvarez et al I. 0 370 360 340 320 300 6 12 16 20 4 (pi-Pcl)/(rnol ; 24 dm-“1 FIG. 6. Same graph as in Fig. I. KCI-HzO. 0; NaCI-H20, 0: obtained from equilibrium concentration in steam and water: 0, data for NaCl obtained with Eqn. 8. too much detail the particular quantity we are interested in here. QUIST and MARSHALL (1968) have determined the conductivity of supercritical aqueous solutions of NaCl over wide ranges of temperature and solvent density. Conductivity is one of the most suitable techniques to determine the extent of ionization of electrolytes. The study was done for supercritical water, but it is possible to extrapolate the results in density and in temperature to obtain an estimate of the degree of dissociation of NaCl in steam when its concentration is that in equilibrium with 0. I and 0.01 molal in the liquid phase. Table 3 reports the values calculated for the degree of dissociation of NaCl at four temperatures. NaCl is significantly associated in steam, but the fraction of free ions is not at all negligible suggesting that it is possible that the extrapolation procedures gives information about the free ions rather than about the ion-pair. If one assumes that Na+ and Cl- ions are strongly associated in steam, the mole fraction of free ions becomes (cuy), where LYis the degree of dissociation of the salt in the vapor phase. Then using Eqn. 11 we have T lim x-0 In f i = $ (p?(l) - p,,) -~ 7’ In cr” . ciation. Consequently, under these conditions of strong association over a narrow concentration range, Eqn. I9 would not extrapolate to zero. On the other hand, if the extrapolated values for the electrolyte corresponded to a partially associated electrolyte, then aa would change with temperature and 7‘ In zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLK KD probably would not show a linear dependence on the solvent density. Since, as shown in Fig. 6, neither of the two situations are observed, we conclude that the values of L,; obtained by extrapolation of the experimental distribution ratios refer to the same dissociated standard state in both fluid phases. There is another study of the distribution ol.NaCl between steam and water reported in the literature (KUSKE. 198 I i. The composition of liquid and vapor phases were determined along several isotherms and isobars at pressures which correspond to the vapor pressure of pure water at each temperature. Extrapolation of the value of NaCl concentration m steam to zero salt in water for isobars and isotherms show differences which are difficult to understand. These differences are small at the highest and the lowest temperatures and very large in the intermediate range. In all cases the isobars were studied down to much lower electrolyte concentration. The apparent disagreement between the two types of runs is not due to their different concentration range. something that could occur only if a significantly different speciation existed over each concentration range. Even the careful analysis 01 the low concentration data is ambiguous. Consequently these data could not be used as another source of information for the distribution ratio. Systems Involving Chemical Reaction Ternary and quatemary aqueous systems are of importance in geochemistry. Whenever there are no chemical reactions among the components of the mixture and the interaction between solutes can be neglected or easily taken into account (like in dilute ionic systems), it is possible to deal with these systems by a trivial extension of the method applied above for binary mixtures. It is common to have an interest in multicomponent systems which undergo protolytic reactions to form new species. In essence this type of process does not change the number of degrees of freedom of the systems as a whole, since for each new component there will be also a new condition of equilibrium. Thus, the number of truly independent degrees of freedom is constant. Due to the very strong dependence of the constant of autoprotolysis of water on the density, HZ0 in steam (i.e., at T _i- 7; j and ;) rr [I<!I IF zyxwvuts (19) 1 where (Y~ is the apparent degree of dissociation of the electrolyte when the ratio of concentrations is extrapolated to infinite dilution. This number will be different from unity if the concentration range used to extrapolate the behavior is too limited to perceive an appreciable change in solute spe- Table 3 N&l degrerof dissocmtion steam for several and gas-phase temperatures and concentrations calculated from phase. They li,,,; extrapolated were values reported by tions ~~~~~ are given II in temperature QUIST arid ,n mol.d~~i-~. composition in the the dissociation and vapor MARSHALL. in liquid constants, density from 1968 Concentra- the 2797 Distribution of solute between steam and water nor in the form of associated pairs) exist in the vapor phase. These results are compared to those calculated with Eqn. 19 from data in the literature, the (T,p)dependence of the three equilibrium constants were reported by PALMER and SIMONSON (1993). First it should be noted that zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfed T In & obtained has been studied up to 623 K zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA by PALMER and SIMONSON from the data for the dist~bution ratios when extrapolated (1993) with special interest in detecting the presence of NH&l to the critical density gives 2260 K. Taking into account the in the vapor phase. The detection of NH.&?1in steam would experimental uncertainties, this value is relatively close to be important for the corrosion of materials in the steamthat of the product &(HCl)* KH (1820K at Tc,). Secondly, water cycle used in the generation of electricity, since it would the fact that the values of K&NH? + HCl) obtained from the increase the transport of the aggressive Cl- ion by steam. Measurements were carried out in excess HCl and also in study of the (HCl + NH3) aqueous system at T 2 573 K do not agree with the straight line in Fig. 7 might be attributed excess NH3 over a wide temperature range. The concentration to an increasingly implant ~ont~bution of the species of the solutes however did not change su~cientiy to give a clear picture of the concentration dependence of the distriNH&l in the vapor phase. This explanation would require confirmation since the data are somewhat ambiguous; some bution ratios. Under the experimental conditions the calof the runs in this temperature range show an increase in the culated amounts of NH4Cl in the vapor for T I 573 K were at least an order of magnitude smaller than the concentrations amount of NHdCI in the vapor when the concentration of WC1 and NH3 in the liquid decreases, while others show a of HCl and NHa. However, at the highest temperatures the normal behavior. This difficulty is obviously due to the very amount of NH&l in steam was estimated to be similar to complicated nature of the experimental determination; conthose of the nonionic species. From the point of view of the sequently, at present the question should be considered still present work these data may be used to illustrate the possibility of describing the steam-water distribution in this system open for temperatures higher than 580 K. with the assumption that in the vapor phase only the species CONCLUSiONS NH3 and HCI are present. This assumption implies that the electrolyte dist~bution is governed by the following reaction: Using analytica data together with information from phase diagrams, it was possible to obtain a good description of the NH$(aq) + Cl-(aq) Y=!NH3(g) + HQ(g); (20) distribution of solutes between water and steam. The results and the equilibrium constant is given by agree with the predicted asymptotic behavior. Supplementing these results with low-temperature data, it is possible to propose formulations for the distribution ratio of solutes at infinite diiution which are valid over all the This quantity may also be given in terms ofthe distribution temperature range of coexistence of water and steam. Forratio of NH3 and HCl by mulations are reported for many gaseous solutes. essentially not dissociated into ions. Consequently protolytic equilibria will only predominate in the dense phase. On the basis of the previous digression we shall analyze the case of aqueous mixtures of HCI and NHs. 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Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57, 1- 8. QUIST A. S. and View publication stats zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUT V,(Ulf Y[r/,W - ~2Wl RT Thermodynamicsof Aqueous Sy stems withIndustrialApplications (ed. S. A: NEWMAN);ACS Symposium Series No. 133,- p. 393. Now if I + 0, K D