Fractional Distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts or fractions. This is the process of separation of chemical compounds by their boiling point, the mixture is heated to a temperature at which one or more fractions (component parts) will vaporize. Generally the component parts boil at less than 25°C from each other under a pressure of one atmosphere. It is a special type of distillation.
Air is a homogeneous mixture of 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases like Helium, Krypton, Nitrogen dioxide etc.
Consider three gases Oxygen, Nitrogen and Argon whose boiling points are -183, -196, -186 degree celsius, that are to be separated from air using Fractional Distillation.
The air is compressed by increasing the pressure and is then cooled by decreasing the temperature to get liquid air. This liquid air is allowed to warm-up slowly in a fractional distillation column, where gases get separated at different heights depending upon their boiling points. As the height of tower increases the temperature increases.
State True of False:
Statement: The temperature is low at the base of the Fractional Distillation.
Fractional Distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts or fractions. This is the process of separation of chemical compounds by their boiling point, the mixture is heated to a temperature at which one or more fractions (component parts) will vaporize. Generally the component parts boil at less than 25°C from each other under a pressure of one atmosphere. It is a special type of distillation.
Air is a homogeneous mixture of 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases like Helium, Krypton, Nitrogen dioxide etc.
Consider three gases Oxygen, Nitrogen and Argon whose boiling points are -183, -196, -186 degree celsius, that are to be separated from air using Fractional Distillation.
The air is compressed by increasing the pressure and is then cooled by decreasing the temperature to get liquid air. This liquid air is allowed to warm-up slowly in a fractional distillation column, where gases get separated at different heights depending upon their boiling points. As the height of tower increases the temperature increases.
State True of False:
Statement: The temperature is low at the base of the Fractional Distillation.
The correct option is A True
The temperature is low at the base of the Fractional Distillation because as the height of tower increases the temperature increases.
True
The temperature is low at the base of the Fractional Distillation because as the height of tower increases the temperature increases.
