Henry's Law

Information about Henry's Law

In chemistry, Henry's law is one of the gas laws, formulated by William Henry. It states that:

At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas dissolved in a given type and volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium with that liquid.

Formula and Henry constant

A formula for Henry's Law is:

$\text{[math]}$

where:

$\text{[math]}$ is approximately 2.7182818, the base of the natural logarithm (also called Euler's number)

$\text{[math]}$ is the partial pressure of the solute above the solution

$\text{[math]}$ is the concentration of the solute in the solution (in one of its many units)

$\text{[math]}$ is the Henry's Law constant, which has units such as L·atm/mol, atm/(mol fraction) or Pa·m³/mol.

Taking the natural logarithm of the formula, gives us the more commonly used formula:^[1]

$\text{[math]}$

Some values for k include:

oxygen (O₂) : 769.2 L·atm/mol

carbon dioxide (CO₂) : 29.4 L·atm/mol

hydrogen (H₂) : 1282.1 L·atm/mol

when these gases are dissolved in water at 298 kelvin.

Note that in the above, the unit of concentration was chosen to be molarity. Hence the dimensional units: L is liters of solution, atm is the partial pressure of the gaseous solute above the solution (in atmospheres of absolute pressure), and mol is the moles of the gaseous solute in the solution. Also note that the Henry's Law constant, k, varies with the solvent and the temperature.

As discussed in the next section, there are other forms of Henry's Law each of which defines the constant k differently and requires different dimensional units.^[2] The form of the equation presented above is consistent with the given example numerical values for oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen and with their corresponding dimensional units.

Other Forms of Henry's Law

There are various other forms Henry's Law which are discussed in the technical literature.^[3]^[4]^[2]

'''Table 1: Some forms of Henry's law and constants (gases in water at 298K), derived from ^[4]
equation:	$\text{[math]}$	$\text{[math]}$	$\text{[math]}$	$\text{[math]}$
dimension:	$\text{[math]}$	$\text{[math]}$	$\text{[math]}$	$\text{[math]}$
O₂	769.23	1.3 E-3	4.259 E4	3.180 E-2
H₂	1282.05	7.8 E-4	7.099 E4	1.907 E-2
CO₂	29.41	3.4 E-2	0.163 E4	0.8317
N₂	1639.34	6.1 E-4	9.077 E4	1.492 E-2
He	2702.7	3.7 E-4	14.97 E4	9.051 E-3
Ne	2222.22	4.5 E-4	12.30 E4	1.101 E-2
Ar	714.28	1.4 E-3	3.955 E4	3.425 E-2
CO	1052.63	9.5 E-4	5.828 E4	2.324 E-2

where:

$\text{[math]}$ = moles of gas per liter of solution

$\text{[math]}$ = liters of solution

$\text{[math]}$ = partial pressure of gas above the solution, in atmospheres of absolute pressure

$\text{[math]}$ = mole fraction of gas in solution = moles of gas per total moles ≈ moles of gas per mole of water

$\text{[math]}$ = atmospheres of absolute pressure

As can be seen by comparing the equations in the above table, the Henry's Law constant $\text{[math]}$ is simply the inverse of the constant $\text{[math]}$ . Since all $\text{[math]}$ may be referred to as the Henry's Law constant, readers of the technical literature must be quite careful to note which version of the Henry's Law equation is being used.^[2]

It should also be noted the Henry's Law is a limiting law that only applies for dilute enough solutions. The range of concentrations in which it applies becomes narrower the more the system diverges from non-ideal behavior. Roughly speaking, that is the more chemically different the solute is from the solvent.

It also only applies for solutions where the solvent does not react chemically with the gas being dissolved. A common example of a gas that does react with the solvent is carbon dioxide, which rapidly forms hydrated carbon dioxide and then carbonic acid (H₂CO₃) with water.

Temperature dependence of the Henry constant

When the temperature of a system changes, the Henry constant will also change.^[2] This is why some people prefer to name it Henry coefficient. There are multiple equations assessing the effect of temperature on the constant. A simple example is ^[4], which is a form of the van 't Hoff equation:

$\text{[math]}$

where

k for a given temperature is the Henry's Law constant (as defined in the first section of this article), identical with k_H,pc defined in Table 1,

T is in kelvins,

the index $\text{[math]}$ (Theta) refers to the standard temperature (298K).

The above equation is an approximation only and should be used only when no better experimentally derived formula for a given gas exists.

The following table lists some values for constant C (dimension of kelvins) in the equation above:

**Table 2: Values of C**
Gas	O₂	H₂	CO₂	N₂	He	Ne	Ar	CO
C	1700	500	2400	1300	230	490	1300	1300

Because solubility of gases is decreasing with increasing temperature, the partial pressure a given gas concentration has in liquid must increase. While heating water (saturated with nitrogen) from 25°C to 95°C the solubility will decrease to about 43% of its initial value. This can be verified when heating water in a pot. Small bubbles evolve and rise, long before the water reaches boiling temperature. Similarly, carbon dioxide from a carbonated drink escapes much faster when the drink is not cooled because of the increased partial pressure of CO₂ in higher temperatures. Partial pressure of CO₂ in seawater doubles with every 16 K increase in temperature.^[5]

The constant C may be regarded as:

$\text{[math]}$

where

$\text{[math]}$ is the enthalpy of solution

$\text{[math]}$ is the gas constant.

Henry's law in geophysics

In geophysics a version of Henry's law applies to the solubility of a noble gas in contact with silicate melt. One equation used is

$\text{[math]}$

where:

subscript m = melt

subscript g = gas phase

$\text{[math]}$ = the number densities of the solute gas in the melt and gas phase

$\text{[math]}$ an inverse temperature scale

$\text{[math]}$ = the Boltzmann constant

$\text{[math]}$ and $\text{[math]}$ = the excess chemical potential of the solute in the two phases.

Henry's law versus Raoult's law

Both Henry's law and Raoult's law state that the vapor pressure of a component, p, is proportional to its concentration.

Henry's law: $\text{[math]}$

Raoult's law: $\text{[math]}$

where:

$\text{[math]}$ is the mole fraction of the component;

$\text{[math]}$ is the Henry constant; (Note that the numerical value and dimensions of this constant change when mole fractions are used rather than molarity, as seen in Table 1.)

$\text{[math]}$ is the equilibrium vapor pressure of the pure component.

If the solution is ideal, both components follow Raoult's law over the entire composition range, but Henry noticed that at low concentrations of non-ideal solutions, the constant of proportionality is not p*. Therefore Henry's law uses an empirically-derived constant, k, based on an infinitely-dilute solution, i.e. x = 0, that is specific to the components in the mixture and the temperature.

In most systems, the laws can only be applied over very limited concentrations at the extreme ends of the mole-fraction range. Raoult's law, which uses the vapor pressure of the pure component, is best used for the major component (solvent) and in mixtures of similar components. Henry's law applies to the minor component (solute) in dilute solutions.

In ideal-dilute solutions, the minor component follows Henry's law, while the solvent obeys Raoult's law. This is proved by the Gibbs-Duhem equation.

References

1. ^ University of Delware physical chemistry lecture
2. ^ Francis L. Smith and Allan H. Harvey (September 2007). "Avoid Common Pitfalls When Using Henry's Law". CEP (Chemical Engineering Progress). ISSN 0360-7275.
3. ^ University of Arizona chemistry class notes
4. ^ An extensive list of Henry's Law constants, and a conversion tool
5. ^ Takahashi, T; Sutherland, SC; Sweeney, C; Poisson, A; Metzl, N; Tilbrook, B; Bates, N; Wanninkhof, R; Feely, RA; Sabine, C; Olafsson, J; Nojiri, Y "Global sea-air CO₂ flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO₂ and seasonal biological and temperature effects" Deep-Sea Research (Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography) [Deep-Sea Research (II Top. Stud. Oceanogr.)] 49, 9-10, pp. 1601-1622, 2002

External links

www.henrys-law.org - Large compilation of Henry's law constants
New 'no air tanks' diving system, based on Henry's law - An article with flash presentation

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Henry's Law

Information about Henry's Law

Formula and Henry constant

Other Forms of Henry's Law

Temperature dependence of the Henry constant

Henry's law in geophysics

Henry's law versus Raoult's law

See also

References

External links