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The document discusses several examples of mass transfer problems involving the transfer of substances like water, benzoic acid, and SO2 between different phases like gas, liquid, and solid surfaces. It provides context about conditions like flow rates, temperatures, concentrations, and geometries to calculate mass transfer coefficients and other quantitative values related to the fraction of substances transferred over time.

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The document discusses several examples of mass transfer problems involving the transfer of substances like water, benzoic acid, and SO2 between different phases like gas, liquid, and solid surfaces. It provides context about conditions like flow rates, temperatures, concentrations, and geometries to calculate mass transfer coefficients and other quantitative values related to the fraction of substances transferred over time.

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1. Awet t-shirt hung on a hanger has a total surface area of about 0.6m 2.

It loses water as
follows:
If the saturation vapor pressure of the water of 20 mm Hg gives a water concentration
of 20 g/m3 and the room has a relative humidity of 30%, estimate the mass transfer
coefficient from the t-shirt.
2. Water flows through a thin tube, the walls of which are lightly coated with benzoic
acid. The benzoic acid is dissolved very rapidly and so is saturated at the pipe’s wall.
The water flows slowly, at room temperature and 0.1 cm/sec. The pipe is 1 cm in
diameter. Under these conditions, the mass transfer coefficient k varies along the pipe:
kd
D
¼ 1:62
d2v
DL
!1=3

where d and L are the diameter and length of the pipe and v is the average velocity in
the pipe. What is the average concentration of benzoic acid in the water after 2 m of
pipe?
3. Water containing 0.1-M benzoic acid flows at 0.1 cm/sec through a 1-cm-diameter
rigid tube of cellulose acetate, the walls of which are permeable to small electrolytes.
These walls are 0.01 cm thick; solutes within the walls diffuse as through water. The
tube is immersed in a large well-stirred water bath. Under these conditions, the flux of
benzoic acid from the bulk to the walls can be described by the correlation in Problem
8.2. After 50 cm of tube, what fraction of a 0.1-M benzoic acid solution has been
removed? Remember that there is more than one resistance to mass transfer in this
system.
4. How much is the previous answer changed if the benzoic acid solution in the tube is in
benzene, not water?
5. A disk of radioactively tagged benzoic acid 1 cm in diameter is spinning at 20 rpm in
94 cm3 of initially pure water. We find that the solution contains benzoic acid at
7.3 _ 10_4 g/cm3 after 10 hr 4 min and 3.43 _ 10_3 g/cm3 after a long time (i.e., at saturation).
(a) What is the mass transfer coefficient? Answer: 8 _ 10_4 cm/sec. (b) How
long will it take to reach 14% saturation? (c) How closely does this mass transfer
coefficient agree with that expected from the theory in Example 3.4-3?
6. As part of the manufacture of microelectronic circuits, silicon wafers are partially
coated with a 5,400-A˚ film of a polymerized organic film called a photoresist. The
density of this polymer is 0.96 g/cm3. After the wafers are etched, this photoresist must
be removed. To do so, the wafers are placed in groups of twenty in an inert ‘‘boat,’’
which in turn is immersed in strong organic solvent. The solubility of the photoresist in
the solvent is 2.23 _ 10_3 g/cm3. If the photoresist dissolves in 10 minutes, what is its
mass transfer coefficient? (S. Balloge) Answer: 4 _ 10_5 cm/sec.
7. You are studying mass transfer of a solute from a gas across a gas–liquid interface into
a reactive liquid. The mole fraction in the bulk gas is 0.01; that in the bulk liquid is 0.00;
and the equilibrium across the interface is
y_
i¼
xi
3
The individual mass transfer coefficient ky and kx are 0.50 and 0.60 mol/m2 sec,
respectively. (a) What is the interfacial concentration in the vapor? (b) Sketch, to scale,
the mole fractions in both phases across the interface.
8. Calculate the fraction of the resistance to SO 2 transport in the gas and liquid membrane
phases for an SO2 scrubber operating at 100 _C. The membrane liquid, largely
ethylene glycol, is 5 _ 10_3 cm thick. In it, the SO2 has a diffusion coefficient of about
0.85 _ 10_5 cm2/sec and a solubility of
0:026 mol SO2=l
mmHg ofSO2
In the stack gas, there is an unstirred film adjacent to the membrane 0.01 cm thick, and
the SO2 has a diffusion coefficient of 0.13 cm2/sec. (W. J. Ward)
9. Estimate the average mass transfer coefficient for water evaporating from a film
falling at 0.82 cm/sec into air. The air is at 25 _C and 2 atm, and the film is

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