Progress of Cryogenics and Isotopes Separation , ISSN: 1582-2575
1998, Volume 1, Issue 1+2

Studiul echilibrului chimic a amestecurilor tricomponente de izotopi ai hidrogenului

Abstract

In this paper we present a model for computing the equilibrium constants for chemical reactions between hydrogen's isotopes as function of temperature. The equilibrium constants were expressed with the aid of Gibbs potential and the partition function of the mixture. We assessed the partition function for hydrogen's isotopes having in view that some nuclei are fermions and others' bosons. As results we plotted the values of equilibrium constants as function of temperature. Knowing these values we determined the deuterium distribution on species (for mixture H₂-HD-D₂) as function of total deuterium concentration and the tritium distribution on species (for mixtures D₂-DT-T₂ and H₂-HT-T₂)), as function of total tritium concentration.