CLL 222/CHL221, CRE II: L16

cll222_2015-16@googlegroups.com.

Prof. K.K.Pant
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Delhi.
kkpant@chemical.iitd.ac.in

External Mass Transfer Effects

Reading Assignment Chapter 11

Fogler

Boundary Conditions

For Equi molar counter diffusion

=>

Solve for concentration profile CA vs z

Diffusion through Stagnant Gas (Evaporation or

gas absorption)
Gas B is stagnant then there is no net flux of B
with respect to a fixed coordinate.

Boundary layer around a catalyst pellet

External Resistance to Mass Transfer

Diffusion and Reaction

Determination of limiting situation from

reaction data
Type of
Limitatio
n

Variation of Reaction Rate with:

Velocity

Particle
Size

Temperature

External
Linear
U
(dp)-1/2
diffusion
Internal
Independent
Exponential
(dp)-1
Diffusion
Surface
Independe
Independent
Exponential
nt
Diffusion

External mass transfer / boundary layer

Diffusion through a film to a catalyst particle
CAb= concn of gas A at the ext. boundary of gas film B (dilute gas)
Cas = at the external cat surface

Correlation for mass transfer for flow around a

spherical pellet

Frossling correlation

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Isomerisation Reaction
(Diffusion with chemical reaction)

LHHW surface
reaction
For weak adsorption or at high T,
=>
Moles of A,
transported/area.
time
Solve for CAs

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For rapid reaction (mass tr. Controlled) : sp. reaction rate constant is much
greater than mass
transfer coefficient

For slow reaction/Kinetic controlled

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Transdermal Drug Delivery

FA = Ap WA = Ap (CAP 0)/ R
R= Rp + 1/DAB1 + 2/DAB2

R= TOTAL RESISTANCE
Rp= patch resistance (DRUG DELIVERY SOURCE CA=
H CAb)

H = HENERY CONSTANT

Rate of drug delivery to blood =

WA= (CA- CAs)DAB1/1 = (CAs-0) DAB2/2
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Mass transfer and reaction in a

packed bed

Steady state mole balance on reactian A

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 Mole balance in flux form, where Ac is

constant and FA = AcWAz
dWAz
+ rA' b = 0
dz
where
dC Ab
WAz = -D AB
+ C AbU and
dz
U = superficial velocity
hence
D AB

d2C Ab
dC Ab
'
U
+
r
A b = 0
2
dz
dz