The most striking feature of real gases is that they cease to remain gases as the temperature is lowered and the pressure is increased. The first term in this equation is easy to motivate.
The figure below shows two of these billiard ball type particles at the point of contact also called the distance of closest approach. At this point, they undergo a collision and separate, so that cannot be closer than the distance shown in the figure. The volume of this sphere is the volume excluded from any two particles. Isotherms of the van der Waals equation are shown in the figure below left panel.
At sufficiently high temperature, the isotherms approach those of an ideal gas. However, we also see something strange in some of the isotherms. It should be clear that many approximations and assumptions go into the derivation of the van der Waals equation so that some of the important physics is missing from the model. Hence, we should not be surprised if the van der Waals equation has some unphysical behavior buried in it.
In fact, we know that at sufficiently low temperatures, any real gas, when compressed, must undergo a transition from gas to liquid. The signature of such a transition is a discontinuous change in the volume, signifying the condensation of the gas into a liquid that occupies a significantly lower volume. Unfortunately, the van der Waals equation does not correctly predict this behavior, and hence, it must be added in ad hoc.
The vertical position of the line is. This horizontal line is called the tie line. As it happens, there is exactly one isotherm along which the van der Waals equation correctly predicts the gas-to-liquid phase transition. This isotherm, in fact, corresponds to the highest possible temperature at which such a transition can occur.
The point at which the curve flattens out, signifying the phase transition, is called the critical point. If we draw a curve through the isotherms joining all points of these isotherms at which the tie lines begin, continue the curve up to the critical isotherm, and down the other side where the tie lines end, this curve reaches a maximum at the critical point.
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The linear straight line part of the graph represents ideal gas behavior—volume and temperature are directly and positively related and the line extrapolates to zero volume at — When the gas becomes a liquid, however, the volume actually decreases precipitously at the liquefaction point. The volume decreases slightly once the substance is solid, but it never becomes zero.
High pressure may also cause a gas to change phase to a liquid. Carbon dioxide, for example, is a gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, but becomes a liquid under sufficiently high pressure. LN 2 is made by liquefaction of atmospheric air through compression and cooling. LN 2 is useful as a refrigerant and allows for the preservation of blood, sperm, and other biological materials.
It is also used to reduce noise in electronic sensors and equipment, and to help cool down their current-carrying wires. In dermatology, LN 2 is used to freeze and painlessly remove warts and other growths from the skin. We can examine aspects of the behavior of a substance by plotting a graph of pressure versus volume, called a PV diagram.
When the substance behaves like an ideal gas, the ideal gas law describes the relationship between its pressure and volume. For example, the volume of the gas will decrease as the pressure increases. Figure 2 shows a graph of pressure versus volume.
The hyperbolas represent ideal-gas behavior at various fixed temperatures, and are called isotherms. At lower temperatures, the curves begin to look less like hyperbolas—the gas is not behaving ideally and may even contain liquid. There is a critical point —that is, a critical temperature —above which liquid cannot exist. At sufficiently high pressure above the critical point, the gas will have the density of a liquid but will not condense.
Carbon dioxide, for example, cannot be liquefied at a temperature above Critical pressure is the minimum pressure needed for liquid to exist at the critical temperature. Table 1 lists representative critical temperatures and pressures. Figure 2. PV diagrams.
The lower curves are not hyperbolas, because the gas is no longer an ideal gas. The plots of pressure versus temperatures provide considerable insight into thermal properties of substances. There are well-defined regions on these graphs that correspond to various phases of matter, so PT graphs are called phase diagrams.
Figure 3 shows the phase diagram for water. Using the graph, if you know the pressure and temperature you can determine the phase of water.
The solid lines—boundaries between phases—indicate temperatures and pressures at which the phases coexist that is, they exist together in ratios, depending on pressure and temperature. The curve ends at a point called the critical point , because at higher temperatures the liquid phase does not exist at any pressure.
The critical point occurs at the critical temperature, as you can see for water from Table 1. Figure 3. The phase diagram PT graph for water.
Note that the axes are nonlinear and the graph is not to scale. This graph is simplified—there are several other exotic phases of ice at higher pressures.
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