Cairo University Pre-Masters program

Faculty of Engineering Transport Phenomena II

Chemical Engineering Department Quiz 1, March 2015

Student Name: Time allowed: 30 minutes

1. Air flows past the open end of a vertical tube filled with acetone (which evaporates into
the air stream). The liquid level in the tube is z inches below the top of the tube. Roughly
plot the concentration profile of acetone in the gas film.
If the acetone is replaced with a very non volatile liquid ( i.e. it is very dilute in the gas
phase), state any assumptions you could make to simplify your result and plot the
new concentration profile.

Case 1

Case 2
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Cairo University Pre-Masters program
Faculty of Engineering Transport Phenomena II
Chemical Engineering Department Quiz 1, March 2015

Student Name: Time allowed: 30 minutes

2. Hydrogen gas is stored at 85 C and 7 atm in a 4 m outer diameter spherical container

made of nickel. The shell of the container is 2" thick. The concentration of hydrogen in
the nickel at the inner surface is determined to be 0.087 mol/lit. The concentration of
hydrogen at the outer surface is negligible. Derive an expression for the concentration
profile through the container and determine the mass flow rate of hydrogen by
diffusion through the nickel container. Diffusivity of hydrogen in nickel = 1.2 * 10-12
m2/s.
𝒅𝑪
𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 = −𝑫 ∗ ∗ 𝟒𝝅𝒓𝟐
𝒅𝒓

𝒓𝒐 𝑪𝟐
𝒅𝒓
𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 ∗ = −𝑫 ∗ 𝒅𝑪 ∗ 𝟒𝝅
𝒓𝒊 𝒓𝟐 𝑪𝟏

𝒓𝒐 − 𝒓𝑰
𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 ∗ = 𝑫 ∗ 𝑪𝟏 − 𝑪𝟐 ∗ 𝟒𝝅
𝒓𝒊 ∗ 𝒓𝒐

𝑫 ∗ 𝑪𝟏 − 𝑪𝟐 ∗ 𝟒𝝅
𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 = 𝒓𝒐 − 𝒓𝑰
𝒓𝒊 ∗ 𝒓𝒐

𝟏. 𝟐 ∗ 𝟏𝟎−𝟖 ∗ 𝟎. 𝟎𝟖𝟕 ∗ 𝟏𝟎−𝟑 − 𝟎 ∗ 𝟒𝝅 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔

𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 = = 𝟏. 𝟎𝟎𝟔𝟕 ∗ 𝟏𝟎−𝟕
𝟐𝟎𝟎 − 𝟏𝟗𝟒. 𝟗𝟐 𝒔𝒆𝒄
𝟐𝟎𝟎 ∗ 𝟏𝟗𝟒. 𝟗𝟐

𝒈𝒎
𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 = 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 ∗ 𝑴𝒘𝒕 = 𝟐 ∗ 𝟏. 𝟎𝟎𝟔𝟕 ∗ 𝟏𝟎−𝟕 = 𝟐. 𝟎𝟏𝟑𝟒 ∗ 𝟏𝟎−𝟕
𝒔𝒆𝒄