Question 10.42: State the assumptions made in the penetration theory for the...
State the assumptions made in the penetration theory for the absorption of a pure gas into a liquid. The surface of an initially solute-free liquid is suddenly exposed to a soluble gas and the liquid is sufficiently deep for no solute to have time to reach the far boundary of the liquid. Starting with Fick’s second law of diffusion, obtain an expression for (i) the concentration, and (ii) the mass transfer rate at a time t and a depth y below the surface. After 50 s, at what depth y will the concentration have reached one tenth the value at the surface? What is the mass transfer rate (i) at the surface, and (ii) at the depth y, if the surface concentration has a constant value of 0.1 kmol/m³ ?
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