mass transfer in multiphase systems - Greenleaf University
mass transfer in multiphase systems - Greenleaf University
mass transfer in multiphase systems - Greenleaf University
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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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