Separations Interactive Simulations

Our CDF simulations can be downloaded and used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. They are also available on the Wolfram Demonstration Project website. Please contact us at learncheme@gmail.com if you identify problems with any of the simulations or if you have suggestions for simulations we might prepare.

Binary Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium

Mass Balances for Binary Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE)
Pxy and Txy Diagrams for Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE)
Adding One Component to a Binary Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) Mixture
Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Diagram for Non-Ideal Mixture
Non-Ideal Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) Modeled by the Margules Equation

Add a Component to a Mixture with an Azeotrope
Adiabatic Flash Drum with Binary Liquid Feed
T-x-y and x-y Diagrams for
Binary VLE in Flash Drum
DePriester Chart for Hydrocarbons
Ternary Components

Basic Ternary Phase Diagram
Right and Equilateral Triangle Ternary Phase Diagrams
Ternary Phase Diagram with Phase Envelope
Ternary Phase Diagram with Alternate Phase Envelope
Hunter-Nash Method for Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE)

Liquid-Liquid Extraction on a Right-Triangle Ternary Phase Diagram
Distillation

McCabe-Thiele Method for Methanol/Water Separation
How to Use the McCabe-Thiele Method for Fractional Distillation
Feed Stages in a Distillation Column

Fugacity

Fugacities in a Can of Soda
Fugacity from Equation of State for Water
Fugacity as a Driving Force for Mass Transfer

Phase Equilibrium in a Pure Fluid/Phase Diagrams

Single-Component P-V and T-V Diagrams
Phase Behavior on a Pressure-Volume Diagram
Injecting a Liquid into an Evacuated Tank

Partially Miscible and Immiscible Solutions

Vapor-Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium (VLLE)
Partially Miscible Liquids
Solid-Solid-Liquid Equilibrium
Immiscible Liquids on Pressure-Composition Diagram
Other

Diffusion in Solids
Langmuir Isotherms for a Binary Mixture
Operation of an Absorption Column