CHAPTER 3

PROPERTIES OF PURE SUBSTANCES

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PURE SUBSTANCE

Pure substance: A substance that has a fixed chemical

composition throughout.
Air is a mixture of several gases, but it is considered to
be a pure substance.

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PHASES OF A PURE
SUBSTANCE The molecules
in a solid are
kept at their
positions by the
large springlike
inter-molecular
forces.

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PHASE-CHANGE PROCESSES
OF PURE SUBSTANCES

Compressed liquid
(subcooled liquid):
A substance that it is not
about to vaporize

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Saturated liquid:
A liquid that is
about to vaporize

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Saturated liquid–vapor
mixture: The state at which
the liquid and vapor phases
coexist in equilibrium.

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Saturated vapor: A vapor
that is about to condense.

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Superheated vapor: A
vapor that is not about
to condense (i.e., not a
saturated vapor).

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If the entire process between state 1 and 5 is reversed by cooling the water
while maintaining the pressure at the same value, the water will go back to
state 1, retracing the same path, and in so doing, the amount of heat released
will exactly match the amount of heat added during the heating process.

T-v diagram for the

heating process of
water at constant
pressure.

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Saturation Temperature and Saturation Pressure
The temperature at which
water starts boiling depends
on the pressure; therefore, if
the pressure is fixed, so is the
boiling temperature.
Water boils at 100C at 1 atm
pressure.
Saturation temperature Tsat:
The temperature at which a
pure substance changes
phase at a given pressure.
Saturation pressure Psat:
The pressure at which a pure
substance changes phase at
a given temperature.

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Latent heat: The amount of energy
absorbed or released during a phase-
change process.
Latent heat of fusion: The amount of
energy absorbed during melting. It is
equivalent to the amount of energy released
during freezing.
Latent heat of vaporization: The amount of
energy absorbed during vaporization and it
is equivalent to the energy released during
condensation.
The magnitudes of the latent heats depend
on the temperature or pressure at which the
phase change occurs.
At 1 atm pressure, the latent heat of fusion
of water is 334 kJ/kg and the latent heat of
vaporization is 2257 kJ/kg.
The atmospheric pressure, and thus the
boiling temperature of water, decreases with
elevation.
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Some
Consequences
of Tsat and Psat
Dependence

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PROPERTY DIAGRAMS FOR The variations of
properties during
PHASE-CHANGE PROCESSES phase-change
processes are best
studied and
understood with the
help of property
diagrams such as the
T-v, P-v, and P-T
diagrams for pure
substances.

T-v diagram of
constant-pressure
phase-change
processes of a pure
substance at various
pressures
(numerical values
are for water).

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Critical point: The
point at which the
saturated liquid and
saturated vapor states
are identical.

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Saturated liquid line

Saturated vapor line

Compressed liquid
region

Saturated liquid–
vapor mixture region
(wet region)

Superheated vapor
region

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Extending the
Diagrams to Include
the Solid Phase

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For water,
Ttp = 0.01°C
Ptp = 0.6117 kPa

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Sublimation: Passing from the
solid phase directly into the
vapor phase.

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 Phase Diagram

P-T diagram of pure substances.

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The P-v-T surfaces present a great deal of information at once, but in a
thermodynamic analysis it is more convenient to work with two-dimensional
diagrams, such as the P-v and T-v diagrams.

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PROPERTY TABLES

For most substances, the relationships among thermodynamic

properties are too complex to be expressed by simple equations.

Some thermodynamic properties can be measured easily, but

others cannot and are calculated by using the relations between
them and measurable properties.

The results of these measurements and calculations are

presented in tables in a convenient format.

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Enthalpy—A Combination Property

The product pressure  volume

has energy units.

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Saturated Liquid
and Saturated
Vapor States

A partial list of Table A–4.

Table A–4: Saturation properties of

water under temperature.
Table A–5: Saturation properties of
water under pressure.

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Examples: Saturated
liquid and saturated
vapor states of water on
T-v and P-v diagrams.
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Enthalpy of vaporization,
(Latent heat of vaporization) hfg
The amount of energy needed to vaporize a unit
mass of saturated liquid at a given temperature
or pressure.
It represents the amount of energy needed to
vaporize a unit mass of saturated liquid at a
given temperature or pressure.
It decreases as the temperature or pressure
increases and becomes zero at the critical point.

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Saturated Liquid–Vapor Mixture
Quality, x : The ratio of the mass of
vapor to the total mass of the mixture.
Quality is between 0 and 1
0: sat. liquid, 1: sat. vapor.

Temperature and
pressure are dependent
properties for a mixture.

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y v, u, or h

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Examples: Saturated liquid-vapor
mixture states on T-v and P-v diagrams.

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Superheated Vapor
Compared to saturated vapor, superheated
vapor is characterized by

In the region to the right of the saturated

vapor line and at temperatures above the
critical point temperature, a substance
exists as superheated vapor.
In this region, temperature and pressure
are independent properties.

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Compressed Compressed liquid is characterized by
Liquid
The compressed liquid
properties depend on
temperature much more
strongly than they do on
pressure.

y  v, u, or h

A more accurate relation for h

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Complete the table for water

T P v Phase
(°C) (kPa) (m3/kg) description

140 0.035

550 Saturated liquid

125 750

0.14

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Reference State and Reference Values
The values of u, h, and s cannot be measured directly, and they are
calculated from measurable properties using the relations between
properties.
However, those relations give the changes in properties, not the values of
properties at specified states.
Therefore, we need to choose a convenient reference state and assign a
value of zero for a convenient property or properties at that state.
The reference state for water is 0.01°C and for R-134a is -40°C in tables.
Some properties may have negative values as a result of the reference
state chosen.
Sometimes different tables list different values for some properties at the
same state as a result of using a different reference state.
However, In thermodynamics we are concerned with the changes in
properties, and the reference state chosen is of no consequence in
calculations.
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THE IDEAL-GAS EQUATION OF STATE

Equation of state: Any equation that relates the pressure,

temperature, and specific volume of a substance.
The simplest and best-known equation of state for substances in the gas
phase is the ideal-gas equation of state. This equation predicts the P-v-T
behavior of a gas quite accurately within some properly selected region.

Ideal gas
equation of state

R gas constant
M molar mass (kg/kmol)
Ru universal gas constant

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Mass = Molar mass  Mole number

Various expressions of
ideal gas equation

Ideal gas equation

at two states for a
fixed mass

Real gases behave as an ideal

gas at low densities (i.e., low
pressure, high temperature).

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Is Water Vapor an Ideal Gas?
At pressures below 10 kPa, water vapor can be
treated as an ideal gas, regardless of its temperature,
with negligible error (less than 0.1 percent).
At higher pressures, the ideal gas assumption yields
unacceptable errors, particularly in the vicinity of the
critical point and the saturated vapor line.
In air-conditioning applications, the water vapor in the
air can be treated as an ideal gas. Why?
In steam power plant applications, however, the
pressures involved are usually very high; therefore,
ideal-gas relations should not be used.

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COMPRESSIBILITY FACTOR—A MEASURE
OF DEVIATION FROM IDEAL-GAS BEHAVIOR
Compressibility factor Z A factor that accounts for
the deviation of real gases from ideal-gas behavior
at a given temperature and pressure.

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The farther away Z is from unity, the more the gas deviates from ideal-
gas behavior.
Gases behave as an ideal gas at low densities (i.e., low pressure, high
temperature).
Question: What is the criteria for low pressure and high temperature?
Answer: The pressure or temperature of a gas is high or low relative
to its critical temperature or pressure.

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 Reduced Pseudo-
Reduced
temperature reduced
pressure
specific
volume

Comparison of Z factors for various gases.

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OTHER EQUATIONS OF STATE

The ideal-gas equation of state

is very simple, but its range of
applicability is limited.

It is desirable to have
equations of state that
represent the P-v-T behavior of
substances accurately over a
larger region with no
limitations.

Such equations are naturally

more complicated.

Several equations have been

proposed.

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van der Waals Equation of State

This model includes two effects not

considered in the ideal-gas model:
- the intermolecular attraction forces
- the volume occupied by the
molecules themselves.
The accuracy of the van der Waals
equation of state is often inadequate.

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Beattie-Bridgeman Equation of State

The constants are given in Table 3–4

for various substances. It is known to
be reasonably accurate for densities up
to about 0.8cr.

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 Benedict-Webb-Rubin Equation of State

The constants are given in Table 3–4.

This equation can handle substances at densities up to about 2.5 cr.

Virial Equation of State

The coefficients a(T), b(T), c(T), and so on, that are

functions of temperature alone are called virial coefficients.

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 Summary

Pure substance
Phases of a pure substance
Phase-change processes of pure substances
Property diagrams for phase change
processes
Property tables
The ideal gas equation of state
Compressibility factor
Other equations of state

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