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Distillation is method of separation of components from a liquid mixture which depends on the differences in boiling points of the individual components and the distributions of the components between a liquid and gas phase in the mixture.
Figure 1 dis- plays the vapor pressure curve for methanol, which illustrates that the boiling point of methanol at 1 atm (101 kPa) is 65 • C. At the vacuum level used in this experiment, 0.1 atm...
Boiling Points of Alcohols. The oxygen in alcohols and phenols is sp 3 hybridized which gives the roughly the same tetrahedral geometry as water. The bond angle of methanol (108.5 o) is slightly less than the tetrahedral value mainly due to the presence of its lone pair electrons.
Calculate boiling point or pressure using the Antoine Equation or the Pressure-Temperature Nomograph based on Clausius-Clapeyron Equation.
Boiling Points. The chart below shows the boiling points of the following simple primary alcohols with up to 4 carbon atoms: These boiling points are compared with those of the equivalent alkanes (methane to butane) with the same number of carbon atoms. Notice that:
The phase diagram for ethanol shows the phase behavior with changes in temperature and pressure. The curve between the critical point and the triple point shows the ethanol boiling point with changes in pressure.
Under the vacuum, the boiling point of the ethanol reduces from 78 °C to approximately 34 °C. This, therefore, allows the ethanol to be removed before the temperature of the distillation apparatus reaches the boiling point of the volatile flavour components.
