scholarly journals Correction Factors for Determining the Mass Transfer Coefficients

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Gužela Štefan ◽  
Dzianik František

Abstract A number of industrial operations are linked to mass transfer. The mass transfer coefficient value is necessary to know when designing the industrial equipment in which mass transfer occurs. There are various mass transfer coefficients, as well as equations for their calculation. However, the value of these coefficients determined according to these equations often has to be corrected for the given conditions. The aim of the article is to state the conversion relations - the correction factors enabling the calculation of the mass transfer coefficients values corresponding to the given conditions.

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Goldstein ◽  
P. Jin

A special naphthalene sublimation technique is used to study the film cooling performance downstream of one row of holes of 35 deg inclination angle and 45 deg compound angle with 3d hole spacing and relatively small hole length to diameter ratio (6.3). Both film cooling effectiveness and mass/heat transfer coefficients are determined for blowing rates from 0.5 to 2.0 with density ratio of unity. The mass transfer coefficient is measured using pure air film injection, while the film cooling effectiveness is derived from comparison of mass transfer coefficients obtained following injection of naphthalene-vapor-saturated air with that of pure air injection. This technique enables one to obtain detailed local information on film cooling performance. General agreement is found in local film cooling effectiveness when compared with previous experiments. The laterally averaged effectiveness with compound angle injection is higher than that with inclined holes immediately downstream of injection at a blowing rate of 0.5 and is higher at all locations downstream of injection at larger blowing rates. A large variation of mass transfer coefficients in the lateral direction is observed in the present study. At low blowing rates of 0.5 and 1.0, the laterally averaged mass transfer coefficient is close to that of injection without compound angle. At the highest blowing rate used (2.0), the asymmetric vortex motion under the jets increases the mass transfer coefficient drastically ten diameters downstream of injection.


2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Afshar Ghotli ◽  
Abdul Raman Abdul Aziz ◽  
Shaliza Ibrahim

AbstractA general review on correlations to evaluate mass transfer coefficients in liquid-liquid was conducted in this work. The mass transfer models can be classified into continuous and dispersed phase coefficients. The effects of drop size and interfacial area on mass transfer coefficient were investigated briefly. Published experimental results for both continuous and dispersed phase mass transfer coefficients through different hydrodynamic conditions were considered and the results were compared. The suitability and drawbacks of these correlations depend on the operating conditions and hydrodynamics. Although the results of these models are reasonably acceptable, they could not properly predict the experimental results over a wide range of designs and operating conditions. Therefore, proper understanding of various factors affecting mass transfer coefficient needs to be further extended.


Author(s):  
Harish Ganapathy ◽  
Amir Shooshtari ◽  
Serguei Dessiatoun ◽  
Mohamed Alshehhi ◽  
Michael M. Ohadi

Natural gas in its originally extracted form comprises carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide as small, but non-negligible fractions of its dominant component, methane. Natural gas in the above form is typically subjected to a sweetening process that removes these acid gases. Microscale technologies have the potential to substantially enhance mass transport phenomena on account of their inherently high surface area to volume ratio. The present work reports the mass transfer characteristics during gas-liquid absorption in a microreactor. The absorption of CO2 mixed with N2 into aqueous diethanolamine was investigated in a single straight channel having a hydraulic diameter of 762 micrometer and circular cross-sectional geometry. The performance of the reactor was characterized with respect to the absorption efficiency and mass transfer coefficient. Close to 100% absorption efficiency was obtained under optimum operating conditions. Shorter channel lengths were observed to yield enhanced values of mass transfer coefficient on account of the improved utilization of the liquid reactants’ absorption capacity for a given reactor volume. In comparison to the 0.5 m long channel, the mass transfer coefficients with the 0.3 m and 0.1 m channels were higher on an average by 35.2% and 210%, respectively. Parametric studies investigating the effects of phase superficial velocity, liquid and gas phase concentration were performed. The mass transfer coefficients achieved using the present minichannel reactor were 1–3 orders of magnitude higher than that reported using conventional gas-liquid absorption systems.


Author(s):  
K.V. Shetty ◽  
G. Srinikethan

Volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient is a decisive parameter for the selection of any contactor as an aerobic bioreactor. A pulsed plate column with fixed bed of solids in interplate spaces is a recent innovation in the field of immobilized cell bioreactors. Volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficients are determined in a three-phase pulsed plate column involving air and water phases and with a fixed bed of glass particles, which can serve as a surface for cell immobilization packed in the interplate spaces. The volumetric mass transfer coefficients obtained in this column range from 0.067 to 0.1495 s-1 in the range of air superficial velocities from 0.011 to 0.047m/s and vibrational velocities from 0.825 to 6cm/s. Volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient has increased with the increase in superficial air velocity and vibrational velocity. Empirical correlation relating kLa with these variables was developed. The volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient values in the three-phase pulsed plate column are found to be similar or higher than the literature reported values for conventional two-phase pulsed plate columns. The values of volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficients in the three-phase pulsed plate column are of higher order of magnitude than the literature reported values of volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient for many other three-phase gas-liquid-solid reactors. The pulsed plate column with fixed bed of solids is proven to have all the potential to be used as an aerobic bioreactor with immobilized cells due to its better gas-liquid mass transfer characteristics.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coskan Ilicali ◽  
Filiz Icier

Abstract The analytical model developed by Dincer and Dost [3] for the estimation of diffusivities and mass transfer coefficients has been reviewed, and the equations used for the evaluation of the mass transfer coefficients have been corrected. The corrected equations have been used for the calculation of mass transfer coefficients from literature data. It was observed that the corrected diffusivities showed significant differences from the previously calculated values. The use of the modified equations in future drying calculations will lead to more realistic mass transfer coefficient values.


Author(s):  
Romain Lemoine ◽  
Badie I Morsi

The equilibrium gas solubility (C*), gas-holdup (eG), Sauter mean bubble diameter (dS), volumetric mass transfer coefficient (kLa), gas-liquid interfacial area (a) and mass transfer coefficient (kL) of N2, O2 and air were measured in an agitated reactor operating in surface-aeration (SAR), gas-inducing (GIR) or gas-sparging (GSR) modes in pure toluene and three mixtures of organic liquids (toluene-benzoic acid-benzaldehyde) aimed at simulating the continuous liquid phase toluene oxidation (LPTO) under wide ranges of temperatures (300-453K), pressures (1-15 bar), mixing speeds (13.3-20.0 Hz), superficial gas velocities (0.000-0.004 m/s in the GSR) and liquid heights (0.171-0.268m in the SAR and GIR).C* values of the gases in the organic liquids were calculated using a modified Peng-Robinson Equation-of-State and kLa data were determined using the Transient Physical Absorption technique. The bubble size distributions as well as dS were obtained from the Photographic method, and eG values were measured through the Dispersion Height technique using the reactor’s Jerguson windows. From eG, dS and kLa experimental values, a and kL were calculated under various operating conditions. The Central Composite Statistical Design and analysis technique was used to study the effect of operating conditions on the hydrodynamic and mass transfer parameters.At constant temperature, the equilibrium solubilities (C*) of the three gases in all liquids used appeared to increase linearly with pressure and obey Henry’s Law, however, the values exhibited minima with increasing temperature. The C* values were found to increase with increasing gas molecular weight, and decrease with the addition of benzaldehyde and benzoic acid to pure toluene. A dimensionless form of Arrhenius-type equation, in which the activation energy was dependent of temperature, was developed to predict Henry’s law constant for the three gases in toluene and mixtures with a regression coefficient > 99%.In the SAR, increasing N, T or decreasing H increased eG, a, kL and kLa, and decreased dS, whereas increasing P, decreased eG, a, kL and kLa. In the GIR, increasing N or decreasing H increased eG, a, kL, kLa and dS. Also, increasing T increased and then decreased eG and a; increased kL and kLa; and decreased dS. In addition, increasing P did not affect these hydrodynamic and mass transfer parameters under the operating conditions used. In the GSR, increasing N, T and UG increased eG, a, kL and kLa. Also, increasing N and T, or decreasing UG decreased dS.The addition of benzaldehyde and benzoic acid to pure toluene was found to significantly affect the hydrodynamic parameters (dS and eG), in the GSR and GIR, especially at low temperature due to formation of froth, which led to the enhancement of kLa. The hydrodynamic and mass transfer parameters obtained indicated that the behavior of the SAR was mainly dependent on kL, whereas those of the GSR and GIR were strongly affected not only by kL, but also by a. Statistical correlations were also developed to predict the hydrodynamic and mass transfer parameters obtained in this study with confidence levels > 95%. These correlations could be used to model, design and scale-up the LPTO process in agitated reactors.


Author(s):  
R. J. Goldstein ◽  
P. Jin

A special naphthalene sublimation technique is used to study the film cooling performance downstream of one row of holes of 35° inclination angle and 45° compound angle with 3 diameter hole spacing and relatively small hole length to diameter ratio (6.3). Both film cooling effectiveness and mass/heat transfer coefficients are determined for blowing rates from 0.5 to 2.0 with density ratio of unity. The mass transfer coefficient is measured using pure air film injection, while the film cooling effectiveness is derived from comparison of mass transfer coefficients obtained following injection of naphthalene-vapor-saturated air with that of pure air injection. This technique enables one to obtain detailed local information on film cooling performance. General agreement is found in local film cooling effectiveness when compared with previous experiments. The laterally-averaged effectiveness with compound angle injection is higher than that with inclined holes immediately downstream of injection at a blowing rate of 0.5 and is higher at all locations downstream of injection at larger blowing rates. A large variation of mass transfer coefficients in the lateral direction is observed in the present study. At low blowing rates of 0.5 and 1.0, the laterally-averaged mass transfer coefficient is close to that of injection without compound angle. At the highest blowing rate used (2.0), the asymmetrical vortex motion under the jets increases the mass transfer coefficient drastically ten diameters downstream of injection.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskandar Waini ◽  
Anuar Ishak ◽  
Ioan Pop

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effect of Dufour and Soret diffusions on Al2O3-water nanofluid flow over a moving thin needle by using the Tiwari and Das model. Design/methodology/approach The governing equations are reduced to the similarity equations using similarity transformations. The resulting equations are programmed in Matlab software through the bvp4c solver to obtain their solutions. The features of the skin friction, heat transfer and mass transfer coefficients, as well as the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles for different values of the physical parameters, are analysed and discussed. Findings The non-uniqueness of the solutions is observed for a certain range of the physical parameters. The authors also notice that the bifurcation of the solutions occurs in which the needle moves toward the origin (λ < 0). It is discovered that the first branch solutions of the skin friction coefficient and the heat transfer coefficients increase, but the mass transfer coefficient decreases in the presence of nanoparticle. Additionally, the simultaneous effect of Dufour and Soret diffusions tends to enhance the heat transfer coefficient; however, dual behaviours are observed for the mass transfer coefficient. Further analysis shows that between the two solutions, only one of them is stable and thus physically reliable in the long run. Originality/value The problem of Al2O3-water nanofluid flow over a moving thin needle with Dufour and Soret effects are the important originality of the present study. Besides, the temporal stability of the dual solutions is examined for time.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Sparrow ◽  
B. J. Lovell

Measurements of local heat (mass) transfer coefficients were made on a surface on which a circular jet impinges at an oblique angle. The angle of inclination of the jet relative to the surface was varied from 90 deg (normal impingement) to 30 deg. The Reynolds number and the distance between the jet orifice and the impingement plate were also varied parametrically. To facilitate the experiments, the naphthalene sublimation technique was employed, and the resulting mass transfer coefficients were converted to heat transfer coefficients by the well-established analogy between the two processes. It was found that the point of maximum mass transfer is displaced from the geometrical impingement point, with the extent of the displacement increasing with greater jet inclination. The local coefficients on the uphill side of the maximum point drop off more rapidly than do those on the downhill side, thus creating an imbalance in the cooling/heating capabilities on the two sides. Neither the maximum transfer coefficient nor the surface-averaged transfer coefficient are highly sensitive to the inclination of the jet; during the course of the experiments, the largest inclination-induced decreases in these quantities were in the 15 to 20 percent range.


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