Isotherms of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and their mixtures

Abstract

In a previous communication from these laboratories by G. A. Scott an account was given of the determination of the isotherms of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and mixtures of the two in the molecular proportion 2 : 1, 1 : 1 and 1 : 2 over a pressure range up to 170 atmospheres and at a temperature of 25° C. Since the completion of that investigation new apparatus has been installed so that the pressure and temperature ranges might be extended; and in this paper are embodied the results of further determinations carried out at both 0° C. and 25° C. and over a pressure range extending up to 600 atmospheres. In pursuing this investigation further it is our endeavour to furnish information in regard to the gaseous mixtures in question over the pressure and temperature ranges now commonly used in industrial processes. The Isotherms of the Single Gases . A repetition in our new apparatus of the determinations previously made by Scott both for the single gases and gas mixtures at 25° C. and at pressures up to 170 atmospheres showed his figures to be in close agreement with our own, the variations never exceeding 0·1 per cent.