Chapter 13. Miscibility, Solubility, and Other Phase Equilibria
In the previous chapters we applied the theory of phase equilibrium to a very important and very common problem in chemical engineering: vapor-liquid equilibrium. This is not the only type of phase equilibrium that is encountered in practice. Some liquids have limited miscibility in each other. When mixed, they form two liquid phases and give rise to liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE). When such a system is brought to boil, it forms a third phase, vapor, and the thermodynamic problem is one of vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE). Limited solubility is also encountered in mixtures of gases with liquids (oxygen in water, for example) and of solids in liquids (glucose in water). Another ...
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