A2b Mass Transfer

[Kayla Munl]

Masstransfer is the net movement of mass from one location (usually meaning stream, phase, fraction, or component) to another. Mass transfer occurs in many processes, such as absorption, evaporation, drying, precipitation, membrane filtration, and distillation. Mass transfer is used by different scientific disciplines for different processes and mechanisms. The phrase is commonly used in engineering for physical processes that involve diffusive and convective transport of chemical species within physical systems.

Some common examples of mass transfer processes are the evaporation of water from a pond to the atmosphere, the purification of blood in the kidneys and liver, and the distillation of alcohol. In industrial processes, mass transfer operations include separation of chemical components in distillation columns, absorbers such as scrubbers or stripping, adsorbers such as activated carbon beds, and liquid-liquid extraction. Mass transfer is often coupled to additional transport processes, for instance in industrial cooling towers. These towers couple heat transfer to mass transfer by allowing hot water to flow in contact with air. The water is cooled by expelling some of its content in the form of water vapour.

In astrophysics, mass transfer is the process by which matter gravitationally bound to a body, usually a star, fills its Roche lobe and becomes gravitationally bound to a second body, usually a compact object (white dwarf, neutron star or black hole), and is eventually accreted onto it. It is a common phenomenon in binary systems, and may play an important role in some types of supernovae and pulsars.

Mass transfer finds extensive application in chemical engineering problems. It is used in reaction engineering, separations engineering, heat transfer engineering, and many other sub-disciplines of chemical engineering like electrochemical engineering.[1]

The driving force for mass transfer is usually a difference in chemical potential, when it can be defined, though other thermodynamic gradients may couple to the flow of mass and drive it as well. A chemical species moves from areas of high chemical potential to areas of low chemical potential. Thus, the maximum theoretical extent of a given mass transfer is typically determined by the point at which the chemical potential is uniform. For single phase-systems, this usually translates to uniform concentration throughout the phase, while for multiphase systems chemical species will often prefer one phase over the others and reach a uniform chemical potential only when most of the chemical species has been absorbed into the preferred phase, as in liquid-liquid extraction.

While thermodynamic equilibrium determines the theoretical extent of a given mass transfer operation, the actual rate of mass transfer will depend on additional factors including the flow patterns within the system and the diffusivities of the species in each phase. This rate can be quantified through the calculation and application of mass transfer coefficients for an overall process. These mass transfer coefficients are typically published in terms of dimensionless numbers, often including Pclet numbers, Reynolds numbers, Sherwood numbers, and Schmidt numbers, among others.[2][3][4]

There are notable similarities in the commonly used approximate differential equations for momentum, heat, and mass transfer.[2] The molecular transfer equations of Newton's law for fluid momentum at low Reynolds number (Stokes flow), Fourier's law for heat, and Fick's law for mass are very similar, since they are all linear approximations to transport of conserved quantities in a flow field. At higher Reynolds number, the analogy between mass and heat transfer and momentum transfer becomes less useful due to the nonlinearity of the Navier-Stokes equation (or more fundamentally, the general momentum conservation equation), but the analogy between heat and mass transfer remains good. A great deal of effort has been devoted to developing analogies among these three transport processes so as to allow prediction of one from any of the others.

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Mass transfer by convection involves the transport of material between aboundary surface (such as solid or liquid surface) and amoving fluid or between two relatively immiscible, moving fluids.

Very roughly speaking, squaring the distance traveled and dividing by thetime over which you followed the molecule gives a fundamental measurecommonly used to quantify mass transfer.Of course, we need to consider a very large number of molecules and do someappropriate averaging and scaling depending on the number of dimensions.

The diffusion coefficient (or diffusivity) is a proportionality constantbetween the molar flux due to molecular diffusion and the gradient in theconcentration of the species (or the driving force for diffusion).

You are interested in experimentally determining the mass transfercoefficient for a particular application.You have a device where a number of system properties can be varied:the surface area for mass transfer, the molar rate of transfer,and the bulk concentration of the species of interest.The surface concentration is maintained at \(\SI10.5mol/m^3\).Given the following experimental values, what is a reasonable estimate of themass transfer coefficient in units of \(\sim/hr\)?

Concentration profiles for convective mass transferWhen considering convective mass transfer, it is critical to keep in mindthe boundary layer. This concentration boundary layer is very similar tothe hydrodynamic boundary later.

If the mass transfer area, \(A\), is equal for all of these planes(as for the geometry above), the mass per time per area (or mass flux)must be equal. Is this true for a cylindrical geometry?

The equations we have developed are applicable only to systems beinganalyzed in rectangular Cartesian coordinate systems.When we analyze heat transfer resistances, we will examine changes thatare needed for other coordinate systems (e.g., cylindrical coordinates)

You have been assigned to improve the efficiency of a chemical separations device.The team that improves the efficiency most will win an all-expense-paidtrip to the destination of their choice.A schematic of the device is as follows:

Heat and Mass Transfer is a dedicated journal for publishing new developments in the field of basic research of heat and mass transfer phenomena.Covers the complete discipline of heat and mass transfer in relation to engineering thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, and to transport phenoma of heat and mass in all technical applications,.Publishes results from basic research as well as engineering applications such as heat exchangers, process, and chemical engineering.Covers experimental techniques as well as analytical and computational approaches.Previously published under the title "Wrme- und Stoffbertragung" until 1995

Imaging the old to the new will likely not work because of two reasons: XP (the presumed older operating system) and the license - MS licensing doesn't permit imaging of OEM installs from an old computer to a new computer.

Otherwise, you can use NTBackup (downloadable on the internet) to create a .BKF file on an external drive or even onto the new machine's hard drive over the network and then restore the file there to a new (for example, c:\old computer) location.

What do you mean by all? That can include system files. It might be easier to locate all the parent folders and copying them over to the new computers instead of searching through the sub-folders. If you know the files/folders that you need to copy in advance, you could just create a simple batch script to copy the files for you.

What you suggested would not work (many of the files will be in use), but you wouldn't want to do this anyway. The thing is, everything in C:\Windows (among other folders) is already ON the new computer, and if there are parts that AREN'T, they might confuse the computer if they were there. Similarly, if you did this, you might not get all of the registry settings copied over. Without these, the computer wouldn't be set up correctly. You need to copy over the Documents and Settings (or Users) folder, and you need to reinstall all the programs. That's the only way to guarantee that everything important is copied over without ruining the brand-new computer.

If they are certain they want ALL their files, even though there geek (you) tells them this will get every file they care about and many they don't, then you should also use Multiverse IT's solution and get an enclosure to turn the old hard drive into an external one.

P.S. In our family, two of the three of us are geeks. We always have over-extensive backups whenever moving computers. We'd definitely go for the enclosure option. However, I can tell you from experience - we would NEVER use it, not even once.

You could also use Dropbox to transfer a large queue of files - Lifehacker. (this would require two computers, you could transfer the files via Dropbox to a machine for temporary holding, reinstall, then transfer them back...)

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