AN ESTIMATION OF CHEMICAL-EQUILIBRIUM IN A HETEROGENEOUS MULTICOMPONENT SYSTEM

A simple algorithm which always converges for estimating the phase com position and compositions of multicomponent phases of a reacting heter ogeneous multicomponent closed system has been proposed and its conver gence proved. The thus obtained estimation serves as the first approxi mation of a chemical equilibrium calculation at given temperature, pre ssure and feed composition. The model of a totally immiscible system i s applied and the blast furnace problem is presented as an example for the demonstration of the algorithm. All mathematical proofs are conta ined separately (see Appendix).