CHNOSZ (version 1.3.6)

equilibrate: Equilibrium Chemical Activities of Species

Description

Calculate equilibrium chemical activities of species from the affinities of formation of the species at unit activity.

Usage

equilibrate(aout, balance = NULL, loga.balance = NULL,
    ispecies = !grepl("cr", aout$species$state), normalize = FALSE, as.residue = FALSE,
    method = c("boltzmann", "reaction"), tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.25)
  equil.boltzmann(Astar, n.balance, loga.balance)
  equil.reaction(Astar, n.balance, loga.balance, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.25)
  moles(eout)

Arguments

aout

list, output from affinity

balance

character or numeric, how to balance the transformations

ispecies

numeric, which species to include

normalize

logical, normalize the molar formulas of species by the balancing coefficients?

as.residue

logical, report results for the normalized formulas?

Astar

numeric, affinities of formation reactions excluding species contribution

n.balance

numeric, number of moles of balancing component in the formation reactions of the species of interest

loga.balance

numeric (single value or vector), logarithm of total activity of balanced quantity

method

character, equilibration method to use

tol

numeric, convergence tolerance for uniroot

eout

list, output from equilibrate

Value

equil.reaction and equil.boltzmann each return a list with dimensions and length equal to those of Astar, giving the log10 of the equilibrium activities of the species of interest. equilibrate returns a list, containing first the values in aout, to which are appended m.balance (the balancing coefficients if normalize is TRUE, a vector of 1s otherwise), n.balance (the balancing coefficients if normalize is FALSE, a vector of 1s otherwise), loga.balance, Astar, and loga.equil (the calculated equilibrium activities of the species).

Algorithms

The input values to equil.reaction and equil.boltzmann are in a list, Astar, all elements of the list having the same dimensions; they can be vectors, matrices, or higher-dimensionsal arrays. Each list element contains the chemical affinities of the formation reactions of one of the species of interest (in dimensionless base-10 units, i.e. A/2.303RT), calculated at unit activity of the species of interest. The equilibrium base-10 logarithm activities of the species of interest returned by either function satisfy the constraints that 1) the final chemical affinities of the formation reactions of the species are all equal and 2) the total activity of the balancing component is equal to (loga.balance). The first constraint does not impose a complete equilibrium, where the affinities of the formation reactions are all equal to zero, but allows for a metastable equilibrium, where the affinities of the formation reactions are equal to each other.

In equil.reaction (the algorithm described in Dick, 2008 and the only one available prior to CHNOSZ_0.8), the calculations of relative abundances of species are based on a solving a system of equations representing the two constraints stated above. The solution is found using uniroot with a flexible method for generating initial guesses.

In equil.boltzmann, the chemical activities of species are calculated using the Boltzmann distribution. This calculation is faster than the algorithm of equil.reaction, but is limited to systems where the transformations are all balanced on one mole of species. If equil.boltzmann is called with balance other than 1, it stops with an error.

Warning

Despite its name, this function does not generally produce a complete equilibrium. It returns activities of species such that the affinities of formation reactions are equal to each other (and transformations between species have zero affinity); this is a type of metastable equilibrium. Although they are equal to each other, the affinities are not necessarily equal to zero. Use solubility to find complete equilibrium, where the affinities of the formation reactions become zero.

Details

equilibrate calculates the chemical activities of species in metastable equilibrium, for constant temperature, pressure and chemical activities of basis species, using specified balancing constraints on reactions between species.

It takes as input aout, the output from affinity, giving the chemical affinities of formation reaction of each species, which may be calculated on a multidimensional grid of conditions. Alternatively, aout can be the output from mosaic, in which case the equilibrium activities of the formed species are calculated and combined with those of the changing basis species to make an object that can be plotted with diagram.

The equilibrium chemical activities of species are calculated using either the equil.reaction or equil.boltzmann functions, the latter only if the balance is on one mole of species.

equilibrate needs to be provided constraints on how to balance the reactions representing transformations between the species. balance indicates the balancing component, according to the following scheme:

• NULL: autoselect

• name of basis species: balance on this basis species

• length: balance on length of proteins

• 1: balance on one mole of species

• numeric vector: user-defined constraints

The default value of NULL for balance indicates to use the coefficients on the basis species that is present (i.e. with non-zero coefficients) in all formation reactions, or if that fails, to set the balance to 1. However, if all the species (as listed in code aout$species) are proteins (have an underscore character in their names), the default value of NULL for balance indicates to use length as the balance.

NOTE: The summation of activities assumes an ideal system, so ‘molality’ is equivalent to ‘activity’ here. loga.balance gives the logarithm of the total activity of balance (which is total activity of species for 1 or total activity of amino acid residue-equivalents for length). If loga.balance is missing, its value is taken from the activities of species listed in aout; this default is usually the desired operation. The supplied value of loga.balance may also be a vector of values, with length corresponding to the number of conditions in the calculations of affinity.

normalize if TRUE indicates to normalize the molar formulas of species by the balance coefficients. This operation is intended for systems of proteins, whose conventional formulas are much larger than the basis speices. The normalization also applies to the balancing coefficients, which as a result consist of 1s. After normalization and equilibration, the equilibrium activities are then re-scaled (for the original formulas of the species), unless as.residue is TRUE.

equil.boltzmann is used to calculate the equilibrium activities if balance is 1 (or when normalize or as.residue is TRUE), otherwise equil.reaction is called. The default behavior can be overriden by specifying either boltzmann or reaction in method. Using equil.reaction may be needed for systems with huge (negative or positive) affinities, where equil.boltzmann produces a NaN result.

ispecies can be supplied to identify a subset of the species to include in the equilibrium calculation. By default, this is all species except solids (species with cr state). However, the stability regions of solids are still calculated (by a call to diagram without plotting). At all points outside of their stability region, the logarithms of activities of solids are set to -999. Likewise, where any solid species is calculated to be stable, the logarithms of activities of all aqueous species are set to -999.

moles simply calculates the total number of moles of elements corresponding to the activities of formed species in the output from equilibrate.

References

Dick, J. M. (2008) Calculation of the relative metastabilities of proteins using the CHNOSZ software package. Geochem. Trans. 9:10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1467-4866-9-10

See Also

diagram has examples of using equilibrate to make equilibrium activity diagrams. revisit can be used to perform further analysis of the equilibrium activities. palply is used by both equil.reaction and equil.boltzmann to parallelize intensive parts of the calculations.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## equilibrium in a simple system:
## ionization of carbonic acid
basis("CHNOS+")
species(c("CO2", "HCO3-", "CO3-2"))
# set unit activity of the species (0 = log10(1))
species(1:3, 0)
# calculate Astar (for unit activity)
res <- 100
Astar <- affinity(pH=c(0, 14, res))$values
# the logarithms of activity for a total activity
# of the balancing component (CO2) equal to 0.001
loga.boltz <- equil.boltzmann(Astar, c(1, 1, 1), 0.001)
# calculated another way
loga.react <- equil.reaction(Astar, c(1, 1, 1), rep(0.001, 100))
# probably close enough for most purposes
stopifnot(all.equal(loga.boltz, loga.react))
# the first ionization constant (pKa)
ipKa <- which.min(abs(loga.boltz[[1]] - loga.boltz[[2]]))
pKa.equil <- seq(0, 14, length.out=res)[ipKa]
# calculate logK directly
logK <- subcrt(c("CO2","H2O","HCO3-","H+"), c(-1, -1, 1, 1), T=25)$out$logK
# we could decrease tolerance here by increasing res
stopifnot(all.equal(pKa.equil, -logK, tolerance=1e-2))

# equilibrate with mosaic: balancing on two elements (N and C)
# thanks to Kirt Robinson for the feature request and test system
loga_N <- -4
loga_C <- -3
basis(c("CO2", "NH3", "O2", "H2O", "H+"))
basis("NH3", loga_N)
species(c("acetamide", "acetic acid", "acetate"))
# this calculates equilibrium activities of NH3 and NH4+ for given loga_N
# and calculates the corresponding affinities of the formed species
m <- mosaic(c("NH3", "NH4+"), pH = c(0, 14))
# this calculates equilibrium activities of the formed species for given loga_C
# and combines them with the activities of the changing basis species (NH3 and NH4+)
eqc <- equilibrate(m, loga.balance = loga_C)
diagram(eqc, ylim = c(-10, -2))
title(main = paste("log(total N in basis species) =", loga_N,
                   "\nlog(total C in formed species) =", loga_C), font.main = 1)
# }