PROBLEM 8.120 KNOWN: Temperature and flow rate of air in a tube with a naphthalene coated inner surface.

FIND: Convection mass transfer coefficient under fully developed conditions and velocity and concentration entry lengths. SCHEMATIC:

ASSUMPTIONS: (1) Heat and mass transfer analogy is applicable, (2) Uniform vapor concentration along inner surface. PROPERTIES: Table A-4, Air (300 K, 1 atm): = 184.6 10 Ns/m , = 15.89 10
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m /s; Table A-8, Naphthalene-air (300K, 1 atm): DAB = 6.2 10 m /s, Sc = /DAB = 2.56. ANALYSIS: For air flow through the tube,
ReD = & 4m 4 0.04 kg/s = = 55,178. D ( 0.05m ) 184.6 107 N s/m 2

Hence the flow is turbulent and from Eq. 8.88, Sh D = 0.023 Re4/5 Sc0.4 = 0.023 ( 55,178 ) D hm =
4/5

( 2.56 )0.4 = 208

D AB 6.2 106 m2 / s Sh D = 208 = 0.026 m/s. D 0.05 m

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From Eq. 8.4, it follows that

10D x fd,h x fd,c 60D or 0.5 m x fd,h x fd,c 3 m. An entry length of 0.5 m is assumed.
COMMENTS: Note that the flow properties are taken to be those of the air, with the contribution of the naphthalene vapor assumed to be negligible.

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