Thermodynamics of aqueous carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide: heat capacities, volumes, and the temperature dependence of ionization

Abstract

A flow microcalorimeter and vibrating tube densimeter were used at 25 °C to obtain apparent molar heat capacities and volumes of aqueous NaHCO3, KHCO3, NaHSO3, and KHSO3, from 0.1 to 1.0 mol kg−1, aqueous CO2 from 0.01 to 0.10 mol kg−1 and aqueous SO2 from 0.045 to 2.0 mol kg−1. The contribution of "chemical relaxation" (changes in equilibrium state and enthalpy due to change in temperature) to the experimental heat capacities of aqueous SO2 required special attention, leading to the derivation of a new equation for calculating this effect. Standard state values for the heat capacities and volumes of aqueous CO2, SO2, HCO3−, and HSO3− were obtained from the apparent molar properties by extrapolation to infinite dilution. Combining these results with other thermodynamic data from the literature gave estimates of log K1b the equilibrium constant for the first neutralization of CO2 and SO2, at high temperatures. The results for CO2 reproduce very accurate literature values to within 0.2 at 200 °C. The expression for the reaction [Formula: see text] log K1b = 22.771 + 2776.0/T–8.058 log T, is consistent with the sparse and limited experimental data.