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Ammonia Hitting 20C-50C

11/17/2010 1:10 PM

Hello all :D

If 10 litres of NH3 Ammonia is heated between 20C - 50C how much will the liquid volume expand? And what pressure develops?

And can someone give me the formula for calculating thermal expansion of liquids? :D

Thanks for those that can help me.

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Re: Ammonia Hitting 20C-50C

11/17/2010 6:57 PM

The 10 litres will expand to about 10.84 liters. The pressure developed is limited by whatever part of the containment leaks or breaks or deforms first. This is known as hydrostatic expansion.

Liquids have coefficients of volumetric expansion, which vary only slightly over small ranges of temperature, but would graph as a curve over a large temperature range. In the case of liquid ammonia in your range, the CEv is ~0.0028/°C. For the 30° of warming, 0.0028 x 30 = 0.084, or an 8.4% increase in volume.

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