Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Enthalpy tables for IPA

Status
Not open for further replies.

pianoman1

Mechanical
Mar 14, 2007
37
I'm a mechanical engineer dabbling in some distillation calcs because no-one else is available. The issue is evaporating IPA off a mix with water, and I can find single, nominal values of enthalpy of evaporation for IPA, but not a complete table, like the steam tables. Am I looking for something that doesn't exist? I need to look at various scenarios at different pressures and temperatures.

Thanks for any feedback.

Scott
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

I know several chemicals with acronym IPA - isopropyl alcohol, isopropyl acetate, isopropyl acrylate. Which one?

Good luck,
Latexman

Technically, the glass is always full - 1/2 air and 1/2 water.
 
bah. IPA's?

I prefer darker smoother brews so this particular problem is ill-relevent. 8<)
 
Sorry, Isopropyl Alcohol.

This time of year, Porter's are nice, but I still like a nice, hoppy IPA.
 
Thanks. I was looking for pure IPA enthalpy tables, which I could not find, but this looks useful. I'll see if it solves my problem.
 
That enthalpy diagram has the IPA/water vapor/liquid equilibrium data built into it. See where the curves cross the line y = x (vapor concentration = liquid concentration), that's the azeotrope at the 3 pressures.

Good luck,
Latexman

Technically, the glass is always full - 1/2 air and 1/2 water.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor