“…Due to the complexity of the 3D-flow around ellipsoids of revolution (Geissler, 1974;Rosenfeld et al, 1992), it is very difficult to obtain the gradient velocity and concentration at the fluid-particle interface outside the body, so the mass transfer rate is usually expressed in terms of the overall mass transfer coefficient (Strumillo and Kudra, 1986;Saravacos, 1995). As a result, as an approach the mean convective mass transfer coefficient on the surface of a spheroid can be obtained using either of the following methods: a) agreement between the predicted and experimental data using, for example, the least squares error technique (Queiroz, 1994;Carmo, 2004;Carmo and Lima, 2005) or b) empirical and theoretical mathematical correlations (Lochiel and Calderbank, 1964;Masliyah and Epstein, 1972;Clift et al, 1978;Coutelieris et al, 1995;Feng and Michaelides, 1997).…”