Mass Transfer Processes Modeling, Computations, and Design

by Ramachandran, P. A.

• ISBN13: 9780134675626
• ISBN10: 0134675622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-02-20
• Publisher: PEARSO

Summary

The All-in-One Guide to Mass Transport Phenomena: From Theory to Examples and Computation

 

Mass transfer processes exist in practically all engineering fields and many biological systems; understanding them is essential for all chemical engineering students, and for practitioners in a broad range of practices, such as biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, material engineering, and the like. Mass Transfer Processes combines a modern, accessible introduction to modeling and computing these processes with demonstrations of their application in designing reactors and separation systems.

 

P. A. Ramachandran’s integrated approach balances all the knowledge readers need to be effective, rather than merely paying lip service to some crucial topics. He covers both analytical and numerical solutions to mass transfer problems, demonstrating numerical problem-solving with widely used software packages, including MATLAB and CHEBFUN. Throughout, he links theory to realistic examples, both traditional and contemporary.

• Theory, examples, and in-depth coverage of differential, macroscopic, and mesoscopic modeling
• Physical chemistry aspects of diffusion phenomena
• Film models for calculating local mass transfer rates and diffusional interaction in gas—solid and gas—liquid reaction systems
• Application of mass transfer models in rate-based separation processes, and systems with simultaneous heat and mass transfer
• Convective mass transfer: empirical correlation, internal and external laminar flows, and turbulent flows
• Heterogeneous systems, from laminar flow reactors, diffusion-reaction models, reactive membranes, and electrochemical reactors
• Computations of mass transfer effects in multicomponent systems
• Solid—gas noncatalytic reactions for chemical, metallurgical, environmental, and electronic processes
• Applications in electrochemical and biomedical systems
• Design calculations for humidification, drying, and condensation systems and membrane-based separations
• Analysis of adsorption, chromatography, electrodialysis, and electrophoresis

Author Biography

Palghat A. Ramachandran is a professor at Washington University at St. Louis in the energy, environmental, and chemical engineering department. He holds bachelors and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from the Bombay University Department of Chemical Technology. He has extensive teaching experience in transport phenomena, reaction engineering, and applied mathematics. His research interest is mainly in the application of transport phenomena principles to chemically reacting systems and development of continuum based models for multiphase reactor design. He is the author of Boundary Element Methods in Transport Phenomena and Advanced Transport Phenomena, and coauthor of Three-Phase Catalytic Reactors.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Modeling of Mass Transfer Processes
2. Examples of Differential (1-D) Balances
3. Examples of Macroscopic models
4. Examples of Mesoscopic models
5. Equations of Mass Transfer
6. Diffusion-Dominated Processes and Film Model
7. Phenomena of Diffusion
8. Transient Diffusion Processes
9. Convective Mass Transport: Basics
10. Convective Mass Transfer: Internal Laminar Flow
11. Mass Transfer in Laminar Boundary Layers
12. Convective Mass Transfer in Turbulent Flow
13. Macroscopic and Compartmental Models
14. Mesoscopic Models and Concept of Dispersion
15. Mass Transfer: Multicomponent Systems
16. Mass Transport in Charged Systems
17. Laminar Flow Reactor
18. Mass Transfer with Reaction: Porous Catalysts
19. Reacting Solids
20. Gas-Liquid Reactions; Film Theory Models
21. Gas-Liquid Reactions: Penetration Theory Approach
22. Reactive Membrane: Facilitated Transport
23. Electrochemical Systems
24. Biomedical Systems
25. Distillation
26. Liquid Extraction
27. Absorption and Stripping
28. Humidification and Drying
29. Condensation
30. Gas Transport Phenomena in Membranes
31. Liquid Separation Membranes
32. Adsorption and Chromatography
33. Electrodialysis and Electrophoresis