(Problema 1)

3.35. Carbon dioxide is stripped from water by air in a wetted-wall tube. At a certain location, where pressure is 10 atm and
temperature 25°C, the mass-transfer flux of CO2 is 1.62 lbmol/h-ft2. The partial pressure of CO2 is 8.2 atm at the interface
and 0.1 atm in the bulk gas. The diffusivity of CO2 in air at these conditions is 1.6 x 10-2 cm2 /s. Assuming turbulent flow of
the gas, calculate by film theory, the mass-transfer coefficient kc for the gas phase and the film thickness.
(Problema 2)
3.39. The following data were obtained by Chamber and Sherwood [Ind. Eng. Chem., 29, 1415 (1937)] on the absorption
of ammonia from an ammonia-air system by a strong acid in a wetted-wall column 0.575 inch in diameter and 32.5 inches
long:
Inlet acid (2-N H2SO4) temperature, °F 76
Outlet acid temperature, °F 81
Inlet air temperature, °F 77
Outlet air temperature, °F 84
Total pressure, atm 1.00
Partial pressure NH3 in inlet gas, atm 0.0807
Partial pressure NH3 in outlet gas, atm 0.0205
Air rate, lbmol/h 0.260
The operation was countercurrent, with the gas entering at the bottom of the vertical tower and the acid passing down in a
thin film on the inner wall. The change in acid strength was inappreciable, and the vapor pressure of ammonia over the
liquid may be assumed to have been negligible because of the use of a strong acid for absorption. Calculate the mass-
transfer coefficient, kp, from the data.
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3.40. A new type of cooling-tower packing is being tested in a laboratory column. At two points in the column, 0.7 ft apart,
the following data have been taken. Calculate the overall volumetric mass-transfer coefficient K y a that can be used to
design a large, packed-bed cooling tower, where a is the masstransfer area, A, per unit volume, V, of tower.

Water temperature
Water vapor pressure, psia 1 Bottom
Mole fraction H2O in air 120
Total pressure, psia 1.69
Air rate, lbmol/h 0.001609 Top
Column cross-sectional area, ft2 14.1 126
Water rate, lbmol/h (approximate) 0.401 1.995
0.5 0.0882
20 14.3
0.401
0.5
20
(Problema 4)
Un fluido viscoso circula con flujo laminar por una rendija formada por dos paredes planas separadas una distancia 2B.
Efectuar un balance diferencial de cantidad de movimiento y obtener las expresiones para las distribuciones de densidad
de flujo de cantidad de movimiento y de velocidad (véase Fig. 2.E):

en las que ¿Cuál es la relación de la velocidad media a la máxima en la rendija? Obtener

la ecuación análoga a la de Hagen-Poiseuille para la rendija.