Mining, Minerals Processing and Metallurgical Engineering

Simulation prediction and experimental study of phase equilibrium for Ag−Cu and Ag−Sb binary alloys  in vacuum distillation

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  • Key Laboratory for Nonferrous Vacuum Metallurgy of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China;

    b National Engineering Research Center of Vacuum Metallurgy, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China;

    c Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China;

    d State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China

Online published: 2026-04-22

Abstract

The modified molecular interaction volume model (M-MIVM) was used to calculate the activity values and their deviations from experimental data for Ag−Cu and Ag−Sb binary alloys. Subsequently, theoretical vapor−liquid equilibrium phase diagrams (Txy and pxy) were plotted via combining M-MIVM and vacuum theory. The vapor−liquid phase equilibrium (VLE) experiments were conducted on the Ag−Cu alloy at 1500−1560 K and 10−15 Pa and Ag−Sb alloys at 950−1350 K and 10 Pa. The results showed that the average relative deviation and average standard deviation of activity were lower than 5% and 0.02, respectively. A comparison of theoretical and experiment results for VLE revealed that the simulated data on the Txy diagram were well consistent with experimental values. Therefore, the VLE phase diagrams can serve as a guide in vacuum separation experiments and industrial production for Ag−Cu and Ag−Sb binary alloys.

Cite this article

Qing-song LI, Bin YANG, Yang TIAN, Bao-qiang XU, Wen-long JIANG, Yuan GAO, Zong-kui JIANG . Simulation prediction and experimental study of phase equilibrium for Ag−Cu and Ag−Sb binary alloys  in vacuum distillation[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2026 , 36(3) : 988 -999 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(25)67011-7

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