The ternary system carbon monoxide-nitrogen-hydrogen and the component binary systems between temperatures of -185° and -215° C., and between pressures of 0 and 225 atm

Abstract

The investigation of two- and three-phase equilibria at low temperatures and high pressures appears hitherto to have been limited almost exclusively to single-component systems. A very few researches on binary systems at low temperatures, such as those of HOLST and HAMBERGER* on argon and nitrogen, and of KUENEN and CLARK, of KUENEN, VERSCHOYLE and VAN URK, and of BARNETT, DODGE and DUNBAR§ on oxygen and nitrogen have been published. No other work on binary systems at low temperatures and high pressures can be traced, and the field of ternary systems at low temperatures would seem to be entirely unexplored. The present researches concern a ternary system which is of importance in the consideration of the technical production of hydrogen by low temperature methods. Both the ternary system itself and the two binary systems, carbon monoxide-hydrogen and nitrogen-hydrogen, were investigated under conditions where the temperature lies well above the critical temperature of one component, but well below that of the other component (or components).