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Modeling the permittivity of electrolyte solutions
Author(s) -
Mollerup Jørgen M.,
Breil Martin P.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.14799
Subject(s) - permittivity , electrolyte , relative permittivity , polarizability , saturation (graph theory) , dielectric , polarization (electrochemistry) , vacuum permittivity , scaling , chemistry , ion , solvent , materials science , analytical chemistry (journal) , thermodynamics , chemical physics , molecule , physics , organic chemistry , geometry , mathematics , optoelectronics , electrode , combinatorics
Solution of a strong electrolyte in a high‐density polar fluid gives rise to a dielectric saturation that decreases the orientation polarizability of the solvent molecules in close proximity to the ions wherefore the relative permittivity in this region is determined solely by the atomic and electronic polarization. This causes a substantial decrease in the static permittivity of the solution. By considering the dielectric saturation, a model for the permittivity of an electrolyte solution have been developed and the parameters, the relative permittivities at dielectric saturation in close proximity to the ions, for 17 ions in water at 298.15 K were determined. By scaling these relative permittivities in proportion to the permittivity of the solvent, the model could be extended to calculate the permittivity of solutions of electrolytes in methanol and admixtures of water and ethanol. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J , 61: 2854–2860, 2015