Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
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ISBN: 9781259696527
Author: J.M. Smith Termodinamica en ingenieria quimica, Hendrick C Van Ness, Michael Abbott, Mark Swihart
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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n-hexane is being evaporated from a solid with nitrogen gas. At a point in the dryer where the gas is at 70oF and 1.1 atm, with a relative humidity for hexane of 25%, determine: (a) partial pressure of hexane at that point; (b) humidity of the nitrogen–hexane mixture; (c) percentage humidity of the nitrogen–hexane mixture; and (d) mole fraction of hexane in the gas.
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