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This document contains a tutorial problem on mass transfer operations from a chemical engineering class. It provides equilibrium data for the absorption of solute A from a gas mixture into a liquid. The problem asks the student to: 1) Calculate interface concentrations and flux given bulk concentrations and film mass transfer coefficients. 2) Calculate overall mass transfer coefficients, flux, and percent gas resistance using the same data. 3) Repeat calculations for new bulk concentrations.

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Tutorial 8

This document contains a tutorial problem on mass transfer operations from a chemical engineering class. It provides equilibrium data for the absorption of solute A from a gas mixture into a liquid. The problem asks the student to: 1) Calculate interface concentrations and flux given bulk concentrations and film mass transfer coefficients. 2) Calculate overall mass transfer coefficients, flux, and percent gas resistance using the same data. 3) Repeat calculations for new bulk concentrations.

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King Saud University

College of Engineering
Chemical Engineering Dept.

ChE 314/318
Tutorial # 8
26/5/1433

Mass Transfer Operations


1. The solute A is being absorbed from a gas mixture of A and B in a wetted-wall tower
with the liquid flowing as a film downward along the wall. At a certain point in the
tower the bulk gas concentration yAG = 0.38 mol fraction and the bulk liquid
concentration is xAL = 0.10. The tower is operating at 298 K and 101.3 x 105 Pa and
the equilibrium data are as follows:

xA
yA

0
0

0.05
0.022

0.10
0.052

0.15
0.087

0.20
0.131

0.25
0.187

0.30
0.265

0.35
0.385

The solute A diffuses through a stagnant B in the gas phase and then through a nondiffusing liquid. Using correlations for dilute solutions in wetted-wall towers, the film
mass transfer coefficient for A in the gas phase is predicted as k`y = 1.465 x 10-3 kg mol
A/s.m2.mol frac. (1.08 lb mol/h. ft2. mol frac) and for the liquid phase as k`x = 1.967 x
10-3 kg mol A/s. mol frac (1.45 lb mol/h. ft2. mol frac.). Calculate the interface
concentrations yAi and xAi and the flux NA.
2. Using the same data as in (1), calculate the overall mass-transfer coefficient
K`x and Kx, the flux, and the percent resistance in the gas film.
3. Use the same equilibrium data and film coefficients k`y and k`x as in (1). However use
bulk concentration of yAG = 0.25 and xAL = 0.05. Calculate the following:
a. Interface concentrations yAi and xAi and flux NA.
b. Overall mass-transfer coefficients K`y and Ky and flux NA.
c. Overall mass-transfer coefficients K`x and flux NA.

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