ChemE 132 Homework Department of Chemical Engineering

1st Semester AY 2020-2021 University of the Philippines Diliman

Principles of Mass Transfer II

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Problem 1
In a wetted-wall tower an air-H 2 S mixture is flowing by a film of water that is flowing as a thin film down a vertical plate.
The H 2 S is being absorbed from the air to the water at a total absolute pressure of 2.25 atm and 40°C.The value of k C ’ is
9.567×10-4 m/s for the gas-phase mass-transfer coefficient. At a given point, the mole fraction of H 2 S in the liquid at the
liquid-gas interface is 9.7×10-6 while H 2 S has a partial pressure of 0.015 atm. The Henry’s law equilibrium relation is P A (atm)
= 675x A . Calculate the molar flux of H 2 S.

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Problem 2
Determine the overall liquid mass-transfer coefficient and the percent resistance encountered in the liquid phase if the individual
mass-transfer coefficients of oxygen transferring from air into 293 K water are k L = 2.15×10-5 kg mol/m2·s·(kg mol/m3) and
k G = 9.28×10-8 kg mol/m2·s·Pa. The Henry’s law coefficient for oxygen in water at 293 K is 4.06×109 Pa/(mol O 2 /total mol
sol’n).