Unsteady-State Interphase Diffusion

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This Demonstration considers the mass transfer of a substance A between two immiscible solvents I and II. The concentration in both phases is plotted versus position for various values of the diffusion coefficients (in ,
and
, time (in seconds), and Henry law constant
(a dimensionless constant). When
the concentration of A is continuous at the interface, which is not typical. The concentration profiles are solutions of the following diffusion equations and boundary conditions:
Contributed by: Housam Binous (March 2011)
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R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart, and E. N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, New York: Wiley, 1960.
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