Convective mass transfer

(wetted wall gas absorption)

Supervisor: Dr.Mohammed Al-saleh

By:Tala Al-omaria.
Outline 1 Objectives

2 Procedure

3 Results

4 Conclusion

5 Questions
 Objectives
• To estimate the liquid film mass transfer coefficient( KL) .
• To determine the power-law relationship between Shaweerd number and renyolds number and

compare the results with published relationships.

• To discus the error and the reasons.
 Procudure
• This experiment was done by means of the mass transfer concept .

(B): Acid-base titration setup .

(A): wetted wall gas absorption
column
 Procudure
(A): wetted wall gas absorption

column
 Procudure
(B): Acid-base titration setup .
 Ruselts
• For first run with constant flow rate of water equal to 20 L/h , and different flow rates of Co2

equal to (1000 cm³/min,2000,3000) during the run .

NaoH( ml) KL( m/s) *10^-5 ReL ShL(empirical) ShL(expermintal) Error%

3.4 1.41 250.81 12299 6634.06 46.1

5 2.2 250.81 12299 10364.56 15.7

6.8 3.23 250.81 12299 15220.44 23.8

Ruselts
The calculations done by equations below:
Shaweerd number( ShL empirical
relationship) :

Shaweerd number( ShL experimntal

relationship) :

Schmidt number (Sc):

Reynolds number(Re):

Grashof number( GaL):

liquid film mass transfer coefficient:

 Ruselts
4.3
4.2
f(x) = 1.95441692174205 x^0.764780142798052
4.1 R² = 0.996041174335701
4
Log ShL

3.9
3.8
3.7
3.6
2.35 2.4 2.45 2.5 2.55 2.6 2.65 2.7 2.75
Log ReL

Figure (1): The logarithmic relationship between Reynolds number of the liquid and Sherwood

number of the liquid at flow of water equal 20 L/h, the n(power) from the plot equal 0.7648.
 Conclusion:

• The gas-film resistance is negiligbale due to absorption of pure Co2 into water , then

KL was calculated .
• The relationship between the amount of NaoH titrate and flow rate of Co2 is a direct

relation.
• The relation between flow rate of Co2 and Shaweerd number is a direct relationship.

• The relationship between Re number and flow rate of the water was noticed that is a

direct raletion .
Any questions ?