MT: Diffusion through a

hypothetical gas film

surrounding a droplet of
liquid A
Instructor : Dr. Nurul Hasan
Date : 09/04/09
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
 What we will learn today?

 Shell balance (spherical) of mass transfer

 Application of Fick’s Law
 Assumption of the stagnant gas-film
 Isothermal condition
 Nonisothermal condition
 Take a shell (volume)

•The thickness in the r-direction

•No velocity variation in the theta direction
•A, B are ideal mixture
•Solubility of B in A is negligible
Conservation of mass in the shell

 Rate of   Rate of   rate of mass 

       
 mass in   mass out   production 
  Accumalation 

d 2
dr
 r N Ar   0
 Apply Fick’s Law

Applying Fick’s law in previous equation

d  2 cDAB dx A 
 r   0
dr  1  x A dr 
Rearranging the above eqn

d  2 1 dx A 
 r   0
dr  1  x A dr 
 Apply B.C., concentration

Using the BC, finding the constant:

1 r1 1 r
 1  x A   1  x A2  1 r1 1 r2
    
 1  x A1   1  x A1 
 Apply B.C., concentration

Total molar flow:

4cDAB  1  x A 2 
WA  4r N Ar
1
2
 ln 
r r1
1 r1  1 r2  1  x A1 
 Fick’s Law for non-isothermal

Given the T variation as:

n
T r
  
T1  r1 
Given the diffusion coefficient variation:

3n 2
DAB  r 
  
DAB ,1  r1 
 Fick’s Law for non-isothermal

Molar flux to the concentration gradient

3n 2
DAB  r 
  
DAB ,1  r1 
Applying Fick’s law in the DE:

d  2 pDAB ,1 / RT  r  dx A 
 n2

r   0
dr  1  x A  r1  dr 
 
 Apply B.C., concentration

Using the BC, total molar flow:

WA  4r12 N Ar r  r1

4pDAB ,1 / RT 1  n 2  1  x A2 
ln 
 1 r 
1
1  n 2 
 1 r2 
1  n 2 
 r1n2
 1  x A1 
 What we learnt today

•Shell balance (spherical) of mass

transfer
•Application of Fick’s Law
•Assumption of the stagnant gas-film
•Isothermal condition
•Nonisothermal condition