Convective Mass Transfer Coefficient at Wooden Surface in Jet Drying of Veneer

Holzforschung ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Hukka ◽  
Olli Oksanen

Summary The relationship between heat and mass transfer at wooden surface is investigated experimentally by drying 1.6 mm thick birch veneers in constant conditions in a laboratory-scale roller dryer. By intermediate weighing of the samples a drying curve is established for each specimen. The drying curves are formulated in a functional form to produce the drying rate as a function of wood moisture content. Based on that and the measured heat-transfer coefficient a correction factor is calculated for the mass transfer coefficient predicted by the boundary layer theory. The results show that the convective mass transfer coefficient for wooden surfaces substantially deviates from that given by the analogy between heat and mass transfer. The correction factor describing the internal resistance for evaporation is strongly dependent on wood temperature within the range 50–90°C, but for practical purposes not dependent on the average moisture content of the veneer (range 40–70%). The numerical value of the correction coefficient established is somewhat lower than published earlier by other researchers.

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sher Ahmad ◽  
Gabriela Vollet Marson ◽  
Waheed Ur Rehman ◽  
Mohammad Younas ◽  
Sarah Farrukh ◽  
...  

Abstract Background In this research work, a coupled heat and mass transfer model was developed for salt recovery from concentrated brine water through an osmotic membrane distillation (OMD) process in a hollow fiber membrane contactor (HFMC).The model was built based on the resistance-in-series concept for water transport across the hydrophobic membrane. The model was adopted to incorporate the effects of polarization layers such as temperature and concentration polarization, as well as viscosity changes during concentration. Results The modeling equations were numerically simulated in MATLAB® and were successfully validated with experimental data from literature with a deviation within the range of 1–5%. The model was then applied to study the effects of key process parameters like feed concentrations, osmotic solution concentration, feed, and osmotic solution flow rates and feed temperature on the overall heat and mass transfer coefficient as well as on water transport flux to improve the process efficiency. The mass balance modeling was applied to calculate the membrane area based on the simulated mass transfer coefficient. Finally, a scale-up for the MD process for salt recovery on an industrial scale was proposed. Conclusions This study highlights the effect of key parameters for salt recovery from wastewater using the membrane distillation process. Further, the applicability of the OMD process for salt recovery on large scale was investigated. Sensitivity analysis was performed to identify the key parameters. From the results of this study, it is concluded that the OMD process can be promising in salt recovery from wastewater.


1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
M. A. Abdrabboh ◽  
G. A. Karim

An approximate approach was formulated to estimate the coefficient of convective mass transfer from small preshaped rectangular fragments of oil sands when subjected to hot streams of products of combustion of lean mixtures to hydrogen in air at low Reynolds number and at temperatures up to 1000 K. A simple expression which was derived to correlate the mass transfer coefficient in terms of the connective stream temperature was shown to fit the experimental data well.


2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleide M. D. P. da S. e Silva ◽  
Wilton P. da Silva ◽  
Vera S. de O. Farias ◽  
Josivanda P. Gomes

In this article, a methodology is used for the simultaneous determination of the effective diffusivity and the convective mass transfer coefficient in porous solids, which can be considered as an infinite cylinder during drying. Two models are used for optimization and drying simulation: model 1 (constant volume and diffusivity, with equilibrium boundary condition), and model 2 (constant volume and diffusivity with convective boundary condition). Optimization algorithms based on the inverse method were coupled to the analytical solutions, and these solutions can be adjusted to experimental data of the drying kinetics. An application of optimization methodology was made to describe the drying kinetics of whole bananas, using experimental data available in the literature. The statistical indicators enable to affirm that the solution of diffusion equation with convective boundary condition generates results superior than those with the equilibrium boundary condition.


Author(s):  
Gligor H. Kanevce ◽  
Ljubica P. Kanevce ◽  
George S. Dulikravich ◽  
Marcelo J. Colac¸o

The inverse problem of using temperature measurements to estimate the moisture content and temperature-dependent moisture diffusivity together with the heat and mass transfer coefficients is analyzed in this paper. In the convective drying practice, usually the mass transfer Biot number is very high and the heat transfer Biot number is very small. This leads to a very small temperature sensitivity coefficient with respect to the mass transfer coefficient when compared to the temperature sensitivity coefficient with respect to the heat transfer coefficient. Under these conditions the relative error of the estimated mass transfer coefficient is high. To overcome this problem, in this paper the mass transfer coefficient is related to the heat transfer coefficient through the analogy between the heat and mass transfer processes in the boundary layer. The resulting parameter estimation problem is then solved by using a hybrid constrained optimization algorithm OPTRAN.


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