Question 21

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The van der Waals equation of state is given by

where

,

and

represent reduced pressure, reduced temperature and reduced molar volume, respectively. The compressibility factor at critical point (

) is 3/8.
If

and

, then the compressibility factor based on the van der Waals equation of state is __________ (round off to 2 decimal places).

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2021CH

GATE CH 2021 · Paper 1

Chemical Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Chemical Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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