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MASS TRANSFER IN MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS: VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND<br />

REMOVAL IN THREE-PHASE SYSTEMS<br />

CA<br />

NA DAB kiCA<br />

C<br />

z<br />

2<br />

<br />

(65)<br />

To non-dimensionalize, substitute:<br />

CA<br />

Γ <br />

C<br />

2<br />

C<br />

<br />

2<br />

C <br />

(66)<br />

z<br />

(67)<br />

L<br />

Γ<br />

DAB<br />

/ L kiΓ<br />

<br />

(68)<br />

Isolat<strong>in</strong>g the dimensionless ord<strong>in</strong>ary differential equation reveals the Nusselt number of <strong>mass</strong> <strong>transfer</strong> or<br />

otherwise known as the Sherwood number, a ratio of convective type <strong>mass</strong> <strong>transfer</strong> to diffusion:<br />

Sh<br />

kL<br />

i<br />

(69)<br />

DAB<br />

Table 2. Often-used dimensionless numbers <strong>in</strong> mechanical and chemical eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Fo<br />

Fourier<br />

modulus<br />

Dimensionless time characteriz<strong>in</strong>g heat<br />

flux <strong>in</strong>to a body<br />

t/c p d 2<br />

Fr Froude n number Ratio of <strong>in</strong>ertia and gravity forces v 2 /gd<br />

j H Colburn j factor Dimensionless heat <strong>transfer</strong> coefficient NuRe -1 Pr -0.33<br />

j M Colburn j factor Dimensionless <strong>mass</strong> <strong>transfer</strong> coefficient ShRe -1 Sc -0.33<br />

Nu<br />

Nusselt o,p<br />

number<br />

Ratio of total and molecular heat <strong>transfer</strong><br />

hd/<br />

Pe Péclet q number Ratio of advection (convection) to<br />

molecular or thermal diffusion<br />

Re L Sc<br />

(Re L Pr)<br />

n William Froude was an English eng<strong>in</strong>eer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for<br />

the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predict<strong>in</strong>g their stability.<br />

o Ernst Kraft Wilhelm Nußelt was a German physicist. Nußelt studied mechanical eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g at the Munich Technical<br />

<strong>University</strong> (Technische Universität München), where he got his doctorate <strong>in</strong> 1907. He taught <strong>in</strong> Dresden from 1913 to 1917.<br />

p This has the same form as the Biot number. However, the Biot number is a ratio of external resistance to <strong>in</strong>ternal resistance of a<br />

solid body<br />

q It is named after the French physicist Jean Claude Eugène Péclet.<br />

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