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ORKL 1653
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COP}’ NO - /‘;fiz‘f
Contract No. W~T405, eng 26
Reactor Experimental Engineering Division
ENTHALPIES AND SPECIFIC HEATS OF AILKALY
AND ALKALINE EARTH HYDROXIDES
AT HIGH TEMPERATURES
by
W. D. Powers
G. C. Blalock
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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“5a
ENTHALPTES AND SPECIFIC HEATS OF ALKALT
AND ALKALINE EARTH HYDROXIDES
AT HIGH TEMPERATURES
SUMMARY
The enthalpies and heat capacities of'lithium, potassium, strontium, and
barium hydroxides in the liquid and solid state have been determined with &
Bunsen Ice Calorimeter; sodium hydroxide and the lithium—sodium hydroxide
eutectic in the liquid state were alsoc studied. Esfimates of thé heat of
- fusion have been mede. General empirical equations have been developed which
represent the enthalpy and heat capacity of the hydroxides in the liquid state.
INTRODUCTION
Samples of the hydroxides heated to constant and uniform tefiperatures
were dropped into Bunsen ice calorimeters. The differences in the heat
contents of the samples at constant pressure between the furnace temperature
“and 0°C were measured by @bserving the change in volume of the ice-water |
‘mixture in the calorimeter. The enthalpy was thus obtained directly. The
derivative of the enthalpy with respect to temperature yielded the heat
capacity.
The design of the apparatus has been described fully elsewhere {1). It
wes a modification of the device used by the National Bureau of Standards (2).
Ease of construction and simplicity in use were the prime objectives in the
design.
b
Briefly, the apparatus consisted of two parts, the furnace and the
calorimeter (Figure I). During this investigation the furnaces were changed
from 12 to 24 inch long units. The longer furnaces gave more reproducible
results than did the 12 inch furnaces. The samples were contained in tapered
metal capsules. They were sealed by heliarc welding in an inert gas filled
dry box to avoid any possible contamination with water and carbon dioxide.
The temperatures of the samples were measured by platinum, pletinum-rhodium
thermocouples. The capsules were dropped into the calorimeter by electrically
Tusing a short length of wire on which they were suspended in the furnaces.
The calorimeter was of the Bunsen type in which the heat liberated by
the sample was absorbed by an ice-water mixture. The change in volume
measured by & system of burets gave the amount of heat liberated (one ml.
change in volume is equivalent to 8785.7 cal. as calculaited from the density
of ice and water and the heat of fusion)(1)(2). The calorimeter was surrounded
by flaked ice except for the alundum tube through which the sample dropped
from the furnace. Freezing of the copper water lines between the buret as-
sembly and the calorimeter was experienced when the flaked ice was in direct
contact with the copper tubing. A steel shell was made which eliminated this
trouble by providing an air gap between the ice and the calorimetler through
which the copper tubing passed.
The total heat measured by the calorimeter was the sum of the heat
liberated by the sample and capsule and the heat leakage from the surroundings
into the calorimeter down the alundum ftube through which the sample dropped.
The contribution of the capsule was found from the enthalpy temperature
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relationship of empty capsules; the heat leskage was determined from the heat
leakage nmeasurements made before the capsule was dropped and after equilibrium
was established. At SOOOC the heat liberated by the sanple and cspsule was
of the order of 15000 calories, 50 to 70% of which came from the sample. The
heat leakage from the surroundings was 100 to 200 calories for the hour in
which the measurements were made.
The linear dependence of enthalpy on temperature of the samples wss
calculated by least squares; the scatter of the dats was large enough so that
representing the data by a higher power relation was not warranted. Thus the
reported heat capacities are not tefiperature dependent. The standard devi-
ation of the heat capacity was calculated. This was used to determine the 95%
confidence limits on the reported heat capacity.
At the start of this investigation the only high temperature data reported
in the literature were those for sodium hydroxide (3). The preliminary re-
sults of the heat capacity research on the several hydroxides at Oak Ridge
National Laeboratory have been reported in a series of memoranda (4)}; some of
these were obtained using 12 inch furnaces. Recently the National Bureau of
Standards has reported data for sodium hydroxide (5) which are compared to
the results previously determined at ORNL.
_9..
ATUMINUM OXIDE DETERMINATIONS
- Enthalpy and specific heat determinstions have been made for pure
aluminum oxide. It has been proposed as a high temperature calorimetric
standard by the Bureau of Standards (6). One hundred and three determi-
nations at OREL over the temperature fange of 400-900°C (average tempera-
ture 664°C) agree with the NBS results within 3.3% for the enthalpy and 1.3
for the heat capacity as shown in Table I.
TABILE I
ENTHALPY AND HEAT CAPACITY
OF ALUMINUM OXIDE
ORNL, NBS % Deviation
He 000 2 (cal./gm) 126 122 3.3
Hgooo - Hoop 214 209 2.4
cp at 664°c, (cal./gm. °C) 0.29% + 0.013 0.2901 1.3
CHEMICAL PURITY OF THE HYDROXIDES
Pure hydroxides of low water and carbonate content were used in this
investigation. A summary of the analytical data is shown in Table II.
The low total alkalinity of the lithium hydroxide and of the stromntium
hydroxide after use was due to the corrosion of th@ metal capsule and
consequent metallic impurities. These particular cspsules were used at higher
temperatures more often than the other capsules analyzed. Most of the capsules
were run until the hydroxide leaked through the capsule {in most cases at the
~10-
welded joint). Final analyses were msde only on samples which had not
ruptured. The error due to the sclution of metal in the hydroxide is believed
to be within the error of the determination as any reaction products between
the sample and the capsule would have enthalples and heat capacities approxi-
mating the original materials. No significant change of enthalpy was noted
after prolonged use of the capsules at high temperatures.
TABLE IT1
ANALYSIS OF MATERTAIS
Material NaOH KOH LiOH LiOH Sr(CH)o Ba(OH),
NaOH
Capsule YW YV 21 ZN ZK ZR
Capsule material Nickel Nickel 1Inconel TInconel Inconel Inconel
Original Analysis
(% by Wt.)
%4 Total Alkalinity 99.97 100.00 * * 99.80 100.4
% Metal Carbonate .13 .12 b7 143
Final Analysis
% Total Alkalinity 99.46 o8 .68 96.6 09.73 gh,1 99,81
% Metal Carbonate .28 e 57 105 .28 .19 .30
*¥No original analysis was made on this material. The purity of the lithium
hydroxide is of the same order of purlty as the other hydroxides. A typical
analysis is 99.90% total alkalinity, 0.1% LisCOx.
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SODIUM HYDROXIDE
The individual results of the enthalpies of sodium hydroxide are listed
in the appendix and plotfied in Pigure II. Capsule YW was run in the 24 inch
furnaces, the others in the 12 inch furnaces. The enthalpies obtained by thé
different furnaces agreed within 5% of each other. The enthalpy and hest ‘
capacity of liquid sodium hydroxide are represented by the following equations:
i
Hp - Hoog = 65.8 + 0.4o4T
0.49 + 0.02
“p
where H is the enthalpy in cal./g.
T is the temperature °¢
cp is the heat capacity in cal./g. ©C
No attempt was made to determine the properties of the solid phases
because of the insufficient data in that region. The results obteined by
"NBS for the liquid and solid phases are plotted 1in Figure II together with
the results of this investigation obtained below the melting point.
POTASBTUM HYDROXTDE
The individual results of the enthalpies of potassium hydroxide are
listed in the appendix and plotted in Figure IIT. Capsule YV was run in the
24k inch furnaces, the others in the 12 inch furnaces. The enthalpy and heat |
capacity of liquid potassium hydroxide are represented by the following
equations:
500
400
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TEMPERATURE (°C)
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300
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a=-1Zin FURNACE
200
100
{
200
400
600
TEMPERATURE (°C)
800
Fig. 3. Temperature vs. Enthalpy for Potassium Hydroxide
1000
_8[-
-1~
52.5 + 0.354T
H
Hp - Hpog
Cp
i
0.35 + 0.02
The heats of t:ansition of the two solid states of potassium hydroxide
(@2 at 249°C) and the heat of fasion (400°C) msy be roughly estimated from
the data below the melting point. A linear relationship between the enthalpy
and temperature was calculated for the low temperature form from 0YC to the
transition point. A mean healt capacity between the @ form and the liquid was
used for the B form. The enthalpy points at 379°C and asbove for the B form
were considered subject to error since they were near the melting point. The
following equations were calculated
Br(a) - Hyoo = 0.32T
Hp(B) - Hyop
thgo(a) - nggo(a) = 2k
Hygoo{liquid) - Hyno(B) = 40
i
20.2 + .5%57
These agree within the experimental error of previously reported values
of the heat of transition (7), 27 cal./g. and heat of fusion 32.6 cal./g. (7)
(8).
LITHIUM HYDROXIDE
The individual results of lithium hydroxide are listed in the appendix
and plotted in Figure IV. All the capsules were run in the 24 inch furmaces.
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Z 400} -
200
i i
600 800
TEMPERATURE (°C)
Fig. 4 Temperature vs. Enthalpy for Lithium Hydroxide
1000
_S{"“
16~
The enthalpy and heat capacity of the liquid lithium hydroxide are represented
by the following equations:
Hp - Hyoo = 64 + 0.923
¢p = 0.92 + 0.0k
i
The enthalpy and heat capacity of the solid are represented by the
following equations:
HJII - HOOC "“5 + Om627
°p
1
0.63 + 0.0L
The heat of fusion at 473°C 1s 210 cal./g.
EUTECTIC OF LITHTIUM AND SODIUM HYDROXIDES
The individual results of the enthalpies of lithium-sodium hydroxide
eutectic (27 Mole % LiOH) are listed in the appendix and plotted in Figure V.
All capsules were run in the 24 inch furnaces. The enthalpy and heat capacity
of the liquid mixture are represented by the following equations:
Hp - Hyop = 4.3 + 0.599T
°p
il
0.60 + 0.02
The melting point is at 218° + 5°C. There is also a tramsition point
at 180° + 5°C. Because of the small amount of data no estimate is made of
the heat of fusion.
ENTHALPY (cal/gm)
UNCL ASSIFIED
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