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    The Wilke mixture rule can be used to predict the thermal conductivity of gas mixtures using the Chapman-Enskog model. The rule calculates a weighted average of the thermal conductivities of the individual gases based on their mole fractions and viscosity ratios. As an example, the thermal conductivity of air is calculated treating it as a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen using viscosity and thermal conductivity values obtained from literature tables. The calculated value of 0.0392 W/(m·K) agrees well with the literature value of 0.0407 W/(m·K) at 500K.

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    The Wilke mixture rule can be used to predict the thermal conductivity of gas mixtures using the Chapman-Enskog model. The rule calculates a weighted average of the thermal conductivities of the individual gases based on their mole fractions and viscosity ratios. As an example, the thermal conductivity of air is calculated treating it as a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen using viscosity and thermal conductivity values obtained from literature tables. The calculated value of 0.0392 W/(m·K) agrees well with the literature value of 0.0407 W/(m·K) at 500K.

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    The Wilke mixture rule can be used to predict the thermal conductivity of gas mixtures using the Chapman-Enskog model. The rule calculates a weighted average of the thermal conductivities of the individual gases based on their mole fractions and viscosity ratios. As an example, the thermal conductivity of air is calculated treating it as a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen using viscosity and thermal conductivity values obtained from literature tables. The calculated value of 0.0392 W/(m·K) agrees well with the literature value of 0.0407 W/(m·K) at 500K.

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    ME 812

    Conductive Heat Transfer


    Wilke Mixture Rule

    The Chapman-Enskog model can be used for predicting of thermal conductivity of gas
    mixtures. Using Wilkes approach we have
    n xiki
    k mix = n
    i =1
    x j ij
    j =1
    where
    xi is the mole fraction of the ith component
    2
    0.5 MW 0.25
    1 + i j

    j MWi
    ij =
    8[1 + (MWi /MW j )]0.5
    Note that this equation reduces to
    ii = 1
    The in the above equation is the dynamic viscosity for the gas, which can be calculated
    from the Chapman-Enskog model to be
    MW T
    = (2.6709 x 10 - 6 )
    2
    where is equal to k.

    Example: Thermal Conductivity of Air as a Gas Mixture


    We wish to determine the thermal conductivity of air at 500 K treating it as a gas mixture
    of N2 (72%) and O2 (28%).

    Solution:
    We will use the Chapman-Enskog model with the Wilke mixture rule. We set up the
    following table:
    Gas MW / k
    / T/ k
    N2 28.013
    O2 31.999
    Going to Table 7.1 to obtain and /.
    Gas MW / T/
    / k k
    N2 28.013 3.798 71
    O2 31.999 3.467 107
    ME 812 Conductive Heat Transfer

    Calculating T/ and reading k from Table 7.2.


    Gas MW / T/
    / k k
    N2 28.013 3.798 71 7.042 0.8719
    O2 31.999 3.467 107 4.673 0.9393
    For the dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity we will use
    MW T
    = (2.6709 x 10 - 6 )
    2
    Ru MW T
    k = k monatomic + 1.32(c P 5 / 2 ) (2.6709 x 10 - 6 ) 2
    MW k
    T/MW
    k monatomic = (8.3127 10 - 2 )
    2 k
    The specific heat, cP, will be calculated form the equations on Table A.11SI. We then
    obtain
    Gas MW / T/ / k k
    N2 28.013 3.798 71 7.042 0.8719 2.5133 x 10 -05
    0.0383
    O2 31.999 3.467 107 4.673 0.9393 2.9923 x 10 -05
    0.0416
    We can now apply our mixture rule,
    n xiki
    k mix = n
    i =1
    x j ij
    j =1
    where
    2
    0.5 MW 0.25
    1 + i j

    MW
    j i
    ij =
    8[1 + (MWi /MW j )] 0.5

    Then
    N2N2 = 1
    N2N2 = 1
    N2O2 = 0.9791
    O2N2 = 1.0205
    Finally, our mixture thermal conductivity is calculated:
    kmix = 0.0392 W/(mK)
    From Icropera & DeWitt, we find that at 500 K they give an air thermal conductivity of
    0.0407 W/(mK) or a difference of 3.6%. Hence, this is a pretty good approximation.

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