Benemrita Universidad Autnoma de Puebla Facultad de Ingeniera Qumica Laboratorio de Ingeniera I Catedrtico: M.I.

Anglica Mara Lpez Prez Ficks Law

Integrantes:
Andrea

Castillo Navarro Jos Mara Santos Jimnez

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History: Who was Adolf Fick?

Fick was born on September 3, 1829, he was the youngest of five children. His father was a civil engineer. During his secondary schooling, Fick was delighted by mathematics, specially the work of Poisson. In the spring of 1847, Fick went to Marburg, where he was ocasionally tutored by Carl Ludwig on his medicine career. He did outstanding work in mechanics, in hydrodinamics and hemorheology, and in the visual and thermal functioning of the human body.

How he formulated his laws

In 1855, physiologist Adolf Fick first reported his now-well-known laws governing the transport of mass through diffusive means. Fick's work was inspired by the earlier experiments of Thomas Graham, which fell short of proposing the fundamental laws for which Fick would become famous. Fick's experiments dealt with measuring the concentrations and fluxes of salt, diffusing between two reservoirs through tubes of water.

Previous concepts
Mass

transfer: Mass transfer is the movement of matter from a high concentration to a low concentration. This means that the matter wants to "get away from the other similar matter and go to a place where there is open space.

Lets make it clearer

Everyone has sprayed air freshener before. When you spray the air freshener, it does not just smell where you sprayed it, but rather the smell spreads throughout the room. The air freshener (matter) moves from an area of high concentration (where you sprayed it) to an area of low concentration that is far from the place that it was sprayed. This movement of the material is called diffusion.

Diffusion can be represented by a basic equation. The equation that we are about to study is often referred to as Fick's Law.

Fick first law

Is used in steady-state diffusion, when the concentration within the diffusion volume does not change with respect to time. In one dimension. Flux is directly proportional to the steepness of the gradient.

Where: J: The Mass Flux .(moles / (time * area)) Flux is the movement of objects from one point to another in a given time. The flux is what we are measuring when studying diffusion. D: Diffusivity (area / time) The diffusivity is the constant that describes how fast or slow an object diffuses. C: Concentration (amount of substance / volume) Concentration is the amount of mass in a given volume. The symbol C refers to the change in concentration from when the object had not diffused at all, to the final concentration when the object was done diffusing. X: Distance (units of length) This refers to the distance that the object is diffusing. The symbol x refers to the distance between where the object started and where it ended up after it diffused.

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