Vacuum distillation experiments were conducted for tin-antimony alloy (Sn-Sb alloy) under the system pressure of 5 Pa. The content of Sb (mole fraction) in crude Sn, viz., x_Sb was reduced from 0.5000 to 0.0619 in a single stage distillation process under the condition of residual pressure of 5 to10 Pa, distillation temperature of 1373 K and distillation time of 60 min. The activity coefficients of components of Sn-Sb alloy were calculated by using the molecular interaction volume model (MIVM), and the calculated average relative deviation and the average standard deviation were +-0.00039 and +- 0.173%, respectively for both Sn and Sb. The vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) phase diagrams, including the temperaturecomposition (T-x) and pressure-composition (p-x) diagrams of SneSb alloy in vacuum distillation were calculated based on VLE theory and the MIVM. A reasonable agreement between the calculated results and the experimental data indicates that VLE phase diagrams obtained by this method are reliable. The VLE phase diagrams of alloys will provide an effective and convenient way for the designing of the process parameters of industrial production of vacuum metallurgy, and for the prediction of the needed product component dependence of temperature and pressure during the process of vacuum distillation.
Compounds
#
Formula
Name
1
Sn
tin
2
Sb
antimony
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above).
POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied;
the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.