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Topology of ternary VLE diagrams: Elementary cells
Author(s) -
Hilmen E. K.,
Kiva V. N.,
Skogestad S.
Publication year - 2002
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.690480410
Subject(s) - ternary operation , azeotropic distillation , distillation , thermodynamics , topology (electrical circuits) , diagram , simple (philosophy) , ternary plot , chemistry , mathematics , computer science , physics , combinatorics , chromatography , statistics , programming language , philosophy , epistemology
The classification of ternary vapor‐liquid equilibrium (VLE) diagrams is a key to simple azeotropic distillation analysis. All ternary mixtures reported so far to be occurring in nature can be qualitatively represented by a combination of only four elementary cells. This greatly reduces the number of VLE diagram structures that need to be analyzed in order to reveal the qualitative characteristics of any ternary azeotropic mixture.