Mass transfer around a spheroid buried in granular beds of small inert particles and exposed to fluid flow
Mass transfer between a single prolate spheroid buried in a porous media and exposedto fluid flow has been theoretically studied, for convection with moleculardiffusion. A general solution of this problem is not available analytically and twoparticular cases were considered for the purpose of the pr...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/99763 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/99763 |
| Summary: | Mass transfer between a single prolate spheroid buried in a porous media and exposedto fluid flow has been theoretically studied, for convection with moleculardiffusion. A general solution of this problem is not available analytically and twoparticular cases were considered for the purpose of the present work. The analyticalsteady-state solutions for the limiting cases of mass transfer with a thin concentrationboundary layer (high values of Peclet number) and the pure diffusionregime (diffusion in a stagnant fluid) were obtained. The solution is expected todescribe the problem of mass transfer between a large soluble prolate spheroidand the fluid flowing around it in the interstices of a packed bed, with an error ofless than 10 %. |
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