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    1. The document discusses four mass transfer problems involving oxygen transfer from gas to liquid blood, water evaporation from a hemispherical droplet, ethanol/water vapor distillation, and methanol vapor emission from an open tank. 2. For each problem, the document provides the relevant physical description, assumptions, and asks to derive the appropriate mass transfer equation(s) and identify any boundary conditions. 3. The problems cover a range of mass transfer scenarios including falling film, molecular diffusion, vapor-liquid equilibrium, and vapor emission to assess understanding of fundamental concepts.

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    1. The document discusses four mass transfer problems involving oxygen transfer from gas to liquid blood, water evaporation from a hemispherical droplet, ethanol/water vapor distillation, and methanol vapor emission from an open tank. 2. For each problem, the document provides the relevant physical description, assumptions, and asks to derive the appropriate mass transfer equation(s) and identify any boundary conditions. 3. The problems cover a range of mass transfer scenarios including falling film, molecular diffusion, vapor-liquid equilibrium, and vapor emission to assess understanding of fundamental concepts.

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    1. The document discusses four mass transfer problems involving oxygen transfer from gas to liquid blood, water evaporation from a hemispherical droplet, ethanol/water vapor distillation, and methanol vapor emission from an open tank. 2. For each problem, the document provides the relevant physical description, assumptions, and asks to derive the appropriate mass transfer equation(s) and identify any boundary conditions. 3. The problems cover a range of mass transfer scenarios including falling film, molecular diffusion, vapor-liquid equilibrium, and vapor emission to assess understanding of fundamental concepts.

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    Transport Phenomena - Mass Transfer Exercises

    1. A device has been proposed that will serve as a ‘‘blood oxygenator’’ for a heart–lung bypass
    machine. In this process, blood (which is mostly water, species B) containing no dissolved
    oxygen (O2 species A) enters the top of the chamber and then falls vertically down as a liquid
    film of uniform thickness, along a surface designed to appropriately wet blood. Contacting the
    liquid surface is a 100% O2 gas phase.
    Oxygen is soluble in blood, with the equilibrium
    solubility described by Henry’s law, C A*= pA/H, where pA
    is the partial pressure of oxygen (atm),His the Henry’s
    law constant, and CA is the solubility concentration limit
    of oxygen dissolved in blood (mmol/L) at p A. In analyzing
    the mass transport of dissolved oxygen into the falling
    film, you may assume the following: (1) the process is
    dilute with respect to dissolved oxygen in the fluid; (2)
    the falling liquid film has a flat velocity profile with
    velocity Vmax; (3) the gas space always contains 100%
    oxygen; (5) the width of the liquid film, W, is much
    larger than the length of the liquid film, L.
    a) Simplify the general differential equation for O2
    transfer. If your analysis suggests more than one dimension for flux, provide a simplified flux
    equation for each coordinate of interest.
    b) List boundary conditions associated with the oxygen mass transfer process.

    2. A hemispherical droplet of liquid water, lying on a flat surface, evaporates by molecular diffusion
    through still air surrounding the droplet. The droplet initially has a radius R. As the liquid water
    slowly evaporates, the droplet shrinks slowly with time, but the flux of the water vapor is at a
    nominal steady state. The temperature of the droplet and the surrounding still air are kept
    constant. The air contains water vapor at an infinitely long distance from the droplet’s surface.
    a) After drawing a picture of the physical process, select a coordinate system that will best
    describe this diffusion process, list at least five reasonable assumptions for the mass-
    transfer aspects of the water-evaporation process and simplify the general differential
    equation for mass transfer in terms of the flux NA.
    b) What is the simplified differential form of Fick’s equationfor water vapor (species A)?

    3. An ethanol/water vapor mixture is being distilled by contact with


    an ethanol/water liquid solution. The ethanol is transferred from
    the liquid to the vapor phase and the water is transferred in the
    opposite direction. The condensation of water vapor provides the
    energy for vaporization of ethanol. Both components are diffusing
    through a gas film 0.1 mm thick. The temperature is 368 K and the
    pressure is 1.013x105 Pa. At these conditions, the pure component
    enthalpy of vaporization of the ethanol and water are 840 and 2300
    kJ/kg, respectively. Develop the flux equation for ethanol vapor. Then develop the flux equation
    assuming that the components have equimolar heats of vaporization.
    4. A tank with its top open to the atmosphere contains liquid methanol (MeOH, molecular weight
    32g/mol) at the bottom of the tank. The tank is maintained at 30°C. The diameter of the
    cylindrical tank is 1.0 m, the total height of the tank is 3.0 m, and the liquid level at the bottom
    of the tank is maintained at 0.5 m. The gas space inside the tank is stagnant and the MeOH
    vapors are immediately dispersed once they exit the tank. At 30°C, the vapor pressure exerted
    by liquid MeOH is 163 mmHg and at 40°C the MeOH vapor pressure is 265 mmHg. We are
    concerned that this open tank may be emitting a considerable amount of MeOH vapor.
    a) What is the emission rate of MeOH vapor from the tank in units of kg MeOH/day when the
    tank is at a temperature of 30°C? State all assumptions and boundary conditions.
    b) If the temperature of the tank is raised to 408C, what is the new methanol emission rate?

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