Chapter 14: Problem 97
Define the following terms: mass-average velocity, diffusion velocity, stationary medium, and moving medium.
Chapter 14: Problem 97
Define the following terms: mass-average velocity, diffusion velocity, stationary medium, and moving medium.
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Get started for freeConsider a glass of water in a room at \(20^{\circ} \mathrm{C}\) and \(97 \mathrm{kPa}\). If the relative humidity in the room is 100 percent and the water and the air are in thermal and phase equilibrium, determine (a) the mole fraction of the water vapor in the air and \((b)\) the mole fraction of air in the water.
A tank with a 2-cm-thick shell contains hydrogen gas at the atmospheric conditions of \(25^{\circ} \mathrm{C}\) and \(90 \mathrm{kPa}\). The charging valve of the tank has an internal diameter of \(3 \mathrm{~cm}\) and extends \(8 \mathrm{~cm}\) above the tank. If the lid of the tank is left open so that hydrogen and air can undergo equimolar counterdiffusion through the 10 -cm- long passageway, determine the mass flow rate of hydrogen lost to the atmosphere through the valve at the initial stages of the process.
What is the relation \(h_{\text {heat }}=\rho c_{p} h_{\text {mass }}\) known as? For what kind of mixtures is it valid? What is the practical importance of it?
The diffusion of water vapor through plaster boards and its condensation in the wall insulation in cold weather are of concern since they reduce the effectiveness of insulation. Consider a house that is maintained at \(20^{\circ} \mathrm{C}\) and 60 percent relative humidity at a location where the atmospheric pressure is \(97 \mathrm{kPa}\). The inside of the walls is finished with \(9.5\)-mm-thick gypsum wallboard. Taking the vapor pressure at the outer side of the wallboard to be zero, determine the maximum amount of water vapor that will diffuse through a \(3-\mathrm{m} \times 8-\mathrm{m}\) section of a wall during a 24-h period. The permeance of the \(9.5\)-mm-thick gypsum wallboard to water vapor is \(2.86 \times 10^{-9} \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{s} \cdot \mathrm{m}^{2} \cdot \mathrm{Pa}\).
In natural convection mass transfer, the Grashof number is evaluated using density difference instead of temperature difference. Can the Grashof number evaluated this way be used in heat transfer calculations also?
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