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Note # 11

April - 2005
Inter-phase Heat Transfer
Ir. Mohammad Fahrurrozi, M.Sc., Ph.D.

The general equation for total flux can be written

for interphase transport as:

• Note that the determination of the interphase flux requires the values of
the quantity/volume and its gradient to be known at the interface.
• Therefore, equations of change must be solved to obtain the distribution
of quantity/volume as a function of position.
• These analytical solutions, however, are not possible most of the time.
• In that case we resort to experimental data and correlate the results by
the transfer coefficients: the friction factor, the heat transfer coefficient,
and the mass transfer coefficient.
• The resulting correlations are then used in designing equipment.

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Inter-phase Momentum Transport

Friction:

Ach : characteristic area

Kch: characteristic kinetic energy,

Shear stress at the wall:

If we know near-wall velocity

profile, we can determine f
theoretically

Inter-Phase Heat Transfer

At the wall, we may also write:

If we know near-wall
temperature profile, we can
determine h theoretically

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Mass Transfer

At the wall:

How can we obtain near-

wall concentration profile?

In general, we may write:

Heat transfer Stanton’s Number:

 h 
 
 .Cp 
Nu
St H =
St H = 
h Also:
 Re . Pr
1   .Cp.VCH
 f .VCH 
2 

Mass transfer Stanton’s Number:

St M =
(k c )  k c
1  VCH Also: St M =
Sh
 f .VCH  Re .Sc.
2 

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 f Re
2

 Nu

 Sh

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Mass and Heat Transfer Analogy

We can view interphase transport in other way:

: effective film
thickness

We already defined:

We may rearrange using those two equations to get:

Where:

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And:

We can show that:

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The Reynolds Analogy

He proposed that the effective film thicknesses for the
transfer of momentum, energy and mass are equal,
i.e.,
 = t = C

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The Chilton-Colburn Analogy

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