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Ideal Gas Law and Compressibility Factor

This document discusses the ideal gas equation of state and how it relates pressure, temperature, and specific volume. It defines key terms like the universal gas constant, molar mass, and forms of the ideal gas law. While an ideal gas obeys the relation PV=RT, real gases only approximate this behavior at low densities. The compressibility factor Z accounts for deviations from ideal gas behavior due to molecular structure and intermolecular forces.

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Ideal Gas Law and Compressibility Factor

This document discusses the ideal gas equation of state and how it relates pressure, temperature, and specific volume. It defines key terms like the universal gas constant, molar mass, and forms of the ideal gas law. While an ideal gas obeys the relation PV=RT, real gases only approximate this behavior at low densities. The compressibility factor Z accounts for deviations from ideal gas behavior due to molecular structure and intermolecular forces.

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ME 231

Thermodynamics-I

Lecture 16
Fall 2016
Ideal Gas Equation of State
Any equation that relates the pressure,
temperature, and specific volume of a
substance is called an equation of state.

Universal Gas Constant Ru = 8.31434 kJ/kmol-K

Molar Mass (Molecular Weight):


The mass of one mole of a substance in grams.
OR
The mass of one kmol of a substance in kilograms.
2
Forms of Ideal Gas Law
PV mRT
Pv RT
m=MN
PV NRuT Ru=MR
P v RuT, v V/N
P1V1 P2V2

T1 T2
An ideal gas is an imaginary substance that
obeys the relation Pv=RT
Ideal-gas relation given closely approximates
the P-v-T behavior of real gases at low
densities.
Dense gases such as water vapor, however,
should not be treated as ideal gases. 3
Is Water Vapor an Ideal Gas?

4
Measure of Deviation from Ideal
Gas Behavior for P-v-T behaviors of real gases
Good approximation
at low densities (low pressure and high temperature).
Air, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, argon, neon,
carbon dioxide, . ( < 1% error).

ompressibility Factor
The deviation from ideal-gas behavior can be
properly accounted for by using the compressibility
factor Z.

Z represents the volume ratio or


compressibility. 5
Compressibility Factor
Pv = ZRT or
P v = ZRuT, where v is volume per
unit mole.
Z is known as the compressibility
factor.
ompressibility Factor
Real gases, Z < 1 or Z > 1.
It accounts mainly for two things
Molecular structure
Intermolecular attractive forces

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