1) In an Oxygen-Nitrogen gas mixture at 1,0132°10° Pa total pressure and 25°C, The concentrations of oxygen at two planes 0.2 cms apart are respectively 20 and 30 percent by volume. Calculate the rate of diffusion of oxygen (a) when there is equimolar counter diffusion (b) when nitrogen is non-diffusing. Diffusivity of oxygen can be taken as 0.17485 cm*/s (a) Steady-State equimolal counter diffusion (N, P=1.0132*10" Pa T=25+273K = 298 K Pay =0.341.0132*10° Pa (v ~£a) Pas 0.2*1.0132*10° Pa (va 2-0.2*107m Dyy =0.17485*10% m?/s (P-P.) __0.17485*10* © 8314*208*0.2*107 = 0.3573*10~ kmol/m’.s (b) Steady-State diffusion of A through nondiffusing B (WV, = const, N,=0) [0.3-0.2]*1.013*10° Pw PB Pin-P. (Na =e (Pan~ Pua) WHERE Ppay = Pay in Pea Pa Pp, = 1.013* 10° —0.3*1.013*10° = 0.7*1.013*10°Pa Poy =1.013*10* —0.2*1.013*10° = 0.8*1.013*10°Pa N, =4.76*10%kmol/m?.s2) )A tube of 0.01 m inside diameter and 0.20 m long is filled with CO2+H2 at 2.02*105 Pa total pressure and 273 K. The diffusion coefficient of CO2-H2 is 2.75*10-5 m/s. If partial pressure of CO; is 1.51*105 Pa at the one end and 0.5105 Pa at the other end, find the rate of diffusion for CO2 (a) steady-state equimolar counter diffusion (b) Counter diffusion assuming NB = -0.75 NA (a) Steady-State equimolal counter diffusion (V, =—N,) P=2.02*10°Pa T=273K P,y=1.51*10°Pa Pas=0.5*10°Pa z=0.2m Dy =2.75*10* m?/s D. N= Pee (Pa~ Pao) =6.11*10 *kmol/m*.s (b) Unequimolar Diffusion (N,, =—0.75N ,) RT: | 4_ Pa P 0.699*10*kmol/m*.s1) (b) Methane is being cracked on a catalyst as per reaction CH, > C#2H2 under the circumstances such that CH, (A) diffuses to the cracking surface and Hp (B) diffuses back. The diffusivity of CH,-H, System at 1 atm and 100° C is 1.87°10° mls. The partial pressure of CH, at a distance of 0.15 cms from the cracking surface Is 13 kPa and at the surface Is zero. Determine the rate of diffusion per unit area of catalyst surface (Hint: Ne= -2Na) Bulk Gas Phase CHa He (b) Unequimolar Diffusion (NV, P=1.013*10°Pa T=373K Pay -13kPa Pyo=0 Pa z-0.15*107 m Dy =1.87*10 *m?/s -0.75N,) Ni Pug) Ne N,+N, RT Ny N, =—DoP jn) Pt Pe 4 RT: | P+ py N, =0.4914*10*kmol/m?.s2) (b) Nickel Carbonyl (A) is passed by passing carbon monoxide (B) at 323 K and 1 atm over a nickel slab. The following reaction takes place at the solid surface: Ni (s) + 4CO (g) > Ni(CO). () The reaction is very rapid, so that the partial pressure of CO at the metal surface is essentially zero. The gases diffuse through a film 0.625-mm thick. At steady- state, estimate the rate of production of nickel carbonyl, in mol/m* of solid surface. The composition of the bulk gas phase is 40 mol% CO. The binary gas diffusivity under these conditions is Dag = 2"10° m’/s (Hint: No= -4Nq) Bulk Gas Phase 40% CO(B) 60% Ni(CO),4 (A) z= 0.625 mm 100% Ni(CO)4 N, =0.143Smol/m?.s3) Two bulbs are connected by a straight tube, 0.001 m in diameter and 0.15 m in length. Initially the bulb at End 1 contains Np and the bulb at End 2 contains Hp. Pressure and temperature are constant at 25°C and 1 atm. At a time after diffusion starts, the nitrogen content of the gas at End 1 of the tube is 70 mol% and at End 2 is 35 mol%. If the binary diffusion coefficient is 0.784 cm*/s, determine the rates and directions of mass transfer in kmol/s for the following cases (a) Steady state equimolar diffusion (b) Counter diffusion assuring Ng=-0.75 Na (a) Steady-State equimolal counter diffusien (WV, P~1 atm = 1.013*10°Pa T=298K = 0.75 Yy9 =0.35 =-Ny) y P4,=0.741.013*10° Palys ~4n) Pun0354013410'( -22) 70.15 m Day =7.84*10% m?/s Bin —p. = (Pan Paz) =7.479*10°kmol/m?.s =7.479* 10% * (0,001)? /4 =5.87*10""- kmol/s b) Unequimolar Diffusion (N, = -0.75N’,) Na _ Po N, DyP, | Ni+Ny P In N,+N, RIz Ny _ Pa N,+N, P ny, =420? in RIz =8.608*10'kmol/m? s =8.608* 10° **(0.001)* / 4 =6.75*10?kmol/s