Soret-‘shifted’ dew-point temperatures for surfaces exposed to hydrocarbon vapors dilute in compressed nitrogen

Rosner, Daniel E.; Arias‐Zugasti, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.ces.2007.04.018

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“…More broadly, far from being a “higher‐order effect” or an erudite treatise footnote unlikely to influence the way mass‐transfer equipment/processes are/should be designed, it appears from our present (rational‐, if somewhat preliminary‐) estimates that for nonisothermal compressed gas mixtures (e.g., n ‐alkanes dilute in N 2 or H 2 O) involving high (or low‐) molecular weight solutes, the non‐Fickian mechanism associated with the names of Ludwig and Soret, can be responsible for order‐of‐magnitude mass transfer rate modifications, especially at “modest” temperatures and “high” pressures. This is confirmed by our recent ancillary results55 for “condensation onset surface temperatures” in compressed hydrocarbon containing vapors.…”

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Soret‐modified hydrocarbon mass transport across compressed nonisothermal gases

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Arias‐Zugasti

2007

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While engineering methods employed to predict mass transport rates across carrier fluids are often limited to either ideal gas mixtures or constant density liquids, we deal here with species mass transport across nonisothermal compressed gas “films”, with special reference to hydrocarbon fuel vapor transport across nonisothermal N2 or H2O boundary layers at pressures up to ca. 300 atm, and at temperatures often above 1000 K. We show that because of the pressure sensitivity of the Soret factor (which quantifies the relative importance of mass transfer due to temperature gradients compared to that due to concentration gradients) mass transfer coefficients become far more sensitive to pressure level than would have been anticipated from the pressure sensitivity of ρD 12∞. Motivated, in part, by combustion applications, we first examine the expected pressure dependence of the binary Soret factor, αT,12 for each of the n‐alkanes (CH4 to C20H42) dilute in compressed N2 or H2O, exploiting a rational formulation for “correcting” Chapman‐Enskog‐derived Soret factors (α T,120) to higher pressures based on the Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes (TIP) combined with a Virial Equation of State (VES). Our TIP‐VES‐predicted Soret factors are used to demonstrate the pressure sensitivity of expected “Soret‐modified” mass transfer coefficients (Sherwood numbers) for the illustrative case of C12H26(g) transport across N2(g) at temperature ratios between 0.3 (“cold”‐wall) and 2.0 (“hot”‐wall) at pressures up to 300 atm. Because of the growing importance of compact, high‐pressure systems in fields beside combustion, including supercritical fluid extraction and even distillation, our present results suggest that reliable mass transfer rate predictions in nonisothermal dense vapor systems of engineering importance will generally require systematic inclusion of non‐Fickian molecular mass transport. © 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2007

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