Update of Professor Hirasaki’s MATLAB modules (VDW.m and VDWDATA.m)

This portion of the project has updated Professor Hirasaki’s VDW.m and VDWDATA.m MATLAB modules to calculate adsorption of gases in a column. Originally, the program contained data only for n-C₇H₁₆. Now the modules have been updated for n-C₅H₁₂, n-C₆H₁₄, n-C₈H₁₈, n-C₉H₂₀, n-C₁₀H₂₂.

Background information of the 2D van der Waals Equation of State may be read on Professor Hirasaki’s notes.

Experimental data was used for Hamaker constants (Hough 1980). The interaction distance h_i was assumed to remain constant.

The MATLAB files are available here.

(VDWDATA.m)

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VDW.m

Results for HW#8 Problem 1 part (a.) – Separation of n-heptane from air in adsorption column.

n-heptane

n-pentane