I'm familiar with how concepts such as the latent heat of fusion and vaporization work for a system consisting of a single phase-changing gas. q = mH, q=mc dt, all that fun stuff. I'm not familiar with any work in how these concepts manifest when the system consists of multiple gases, or how to determine how much of the heat energy is being transferred to a given component of the gas.
If I had, for instance, a gas containing oxygen, krypton and hydrogen, and I wanted to determine how much energy I'd need to put in in order to get the krypton to devaporize into a liquid while it was mixed in with the other gases, any idea how I'd go about calculating this?
I assume you mean "How much heat needs to be removed for the Krypton to devaporize into a liquid". You have to look at the partial pressure for each component. If you are above the boiling/condensation point for Krypton (at its partial pressure) you first need to remove heat for all gas components to reach the boiling/condensation point of Krypton. Then you need to remove heat to devaporize (heat of vaporization) the Krypton. This will give you a rough idea. I assume the gas composition is contained in some way and as the Krypton gets liquid the pressure will change which implies that you have to remove a little bit more heat. How big the differnce is depends on how much Krypton there is in the gas composition.
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