Heat Transfer

This extended chapter can be found on the website www.cambridge.org/nellisandklein. Mass transfer occurs whenever fluid flows; that is, some mass is transferred from one place to another. However, the focus in this chapter is on the transport of one chemical species (or component) within a mixture of chemical species that occurs as a direct result of a concentration gradient, independent of a pressure gradient. This type of mass transfer is called diffusion. Mass transfer, like momentum transfer, plays an important role in many important heat exchange processes and devices. For example, mass transfer is critical to the operation of cooling coils, cooling towers, and evaporative coolers and condensers that are commonly used in refrigeration and power systems. The energy transfer that occurs as a result of mass transfer can significantly improve the performance of these heat transfer devices. The processes of heat and mass transfer are analogous. The governing equations for heat and mass transfer are similar and therefore many of the relations and solution techniques that have been developed for heat transfer can be directly applied to mass transfer processes.

Chapter 9: Mass transfer

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