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This flux of 0.002 mol/s can be regarded as a net flux consisting of k MAC 1 or<br />

0.003 mol/s in one direction and k MAC 2 or 0.001 mol/s in the opposing direction.<br />

Worked Example 7.2<br />

Water is evaporating from a pan of area 1 m 2 containing 1 cm depth of water.<br />

The rate of evaporation is controlled by diffusion through a thin air film 2 mm thick<br />

immediately above the water surface. The concentration of water in the air immediately<br />

at the surface is 25 g/m 3 (this having been deduced from the water vapor<br />

pressure), and in the room the bulk air contains 10 g/m 3 . If the diffusivity is 0.25<br />

cm 2 /s, how long will the water take to evaporate completely?<br />

B is 0.25 cm 2 /s or 0.09 m 2 /h<br />

Dy is 0.002 m<br />

DC is 15 g/m 3<br />

N = ABDC/Dy = 675 g/h<br />

To evaporate 10000 g will take 14.8 hours<br />

Note that the “amount” unit in N and C need not be moles. It can be another quantity<br />

such as grams, but it must be consistent in both. In this example, the 2 mm thick<br />

film is controlled by the air speed over the pan. Increasing the air speed could reduce<br />

this to 1 mm, thus doubling the evaporation rate. This Dy is rather suspect, so it is<br />

more honest to use a mass transfer coefficient, which, in the example above is<br />

0.09/0.002 or 45 m/h. This is the actual net velocity with which water molecules<br />

migrate from the water surface into the air phase.<br />

7.3.5 Sources of Molecular Diffusivities<br />

Many handbooks contain compilations of molecular diffusivities. The text by<br />

Reid et al. (1987) contains data and correlations, as does the text on mass transfer<br />

by Sherwood, Pigford, and Wilke (1975). The handbook by Lyman et al. (1982) and<br />

the text by Schwarzenbach et al. (1994) give correlations from an environmental<br />

perspective. The correlations for gas diffusivity are based on kinetic theory, while<br />

those for liquids are based on the Stokes–Einstein equation. In most cases, only<br />

approximate values are needed. In some equations, the diffusivity is expressed in<br />

dimensionless form as the Schmidt number (Sc) where<br />

where m is viscosity and r is density.<br />

©2001 CRC Press LLC<br />

Sc = m/rB<br />

7.4 TURBULENT OR EDDY DIFFUSION WITHIN A PHASE<br />

So far, we have assumed that diffusion is entirely due to random molecular<br />

motion and that the medium in which diffusion occurs is immobile or stagnant, with

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