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Scitus Academics Mass Transfer In Chemical Engineering Processes-Scitus by Hemming Lindberg
Mass transfer describes the net movement of mass from one location, usually meaning stream, phase, fraction or component, to another. Mass transfer happens in many processes, such as absorption, evaporation, adsorption, drying, precipitation, membrane filtration, and distillation. Mass transfer is used by different scientific disciplines for different processes and mechanisms. The phrase is commonly used in engineering for physical processes that involve diffusive and convective transport of chemical species within physical systems. The theory of mass transfer allows for the computation of mass flux in a system and the distribution of the mass of different species over time and space in such a system, also when chemical reactions are present. The purpose of such computations is to understand, and possibly design or control, such a system. Some usual phenomenon of mass transfer processes are the evaporation of water from a pond to the atmosphere, the purification of blood in the kidneys and liver, and the distillation of alcohol. In industrial processes, mass transfer operations include separation of chemical components in distillation columns. Mass transfer is frequently attached to additional transport processes, such as in industrial cooling towers. These towers combine heat transfer to mass transfer by sanctioning hot water to flow in dealings with hotter air and evaporate as it grips heat from the air. This book entitled Mass Transfer in Chemical Engineering Processes compromises several approaches in solving mass transfer problems for different practical chemical engineering applications. The book should be of great importance to its readers with interesting ideas and inspirations or direct solutions of their particular problems.