Net movement of mass from one location, phase, etc. to another
Not to be confused with Weight transfer.
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Mass transfer is the net movement of mass from one location (usually meaning stream, phase, fraction, or component) to another. Mass transfer occurs in many processes, such as absorption, evaporation, 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.
Some common examples 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, absorbers such as scrubbers or stripping, adsorbers such as activated carbon beds, and liquid-liquid extraction. Mass transfer is often coupled to additional transport processes, for instance in industrial cooling towers. These towers couple heat transfer to mass transfer by allowing hot water to flow in contact with air. The water is cooled by expelling some of its content in the form of water vapour.
Masstransfer is the net movement of mass from one location (usually meaning stream, phase, fraction, or component) to another. Masstransfer occurs in...
others. The fundamental analysis in all three subfields of mass, heat, and momentum transfer are often grounded in the simple principle that the total...
International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of heat transfer and masstransfer, published by Elsevier. The...
consider the transfer of mass of differing chemical species (masstransfer in the form of advection), either cold or hot, to achieve heat transfer. While these...
"Charge transfer dissociation (CTD) mass spectrometry of peptide cations using kiloelectronvolt helium cations". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry...
Heat and MassTransfer is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer. It serves the circulation of new developments in the field of basic...
length scale of interest (m) The mass-transfer Fourier number can be applied to the study of certain time-dependent mass diffusion problems. Biot number...
low-mass or high-mass according to the mass of the donor star. High-mass X-ray binaries contain a young, early-type, high-mass donor star which transfers...
function of potential only. In other words, it assumes that the electrode masstransfer rate is much greater than the reaction rate, and that the reaction is...
of Momentum, Heat and Masstransfer (5th ed.). John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0470128688. Çengel, Yunus. Heat and MassTransfer (Second ed.). McGraw-Hill...
NJ: Wiley. ISBN 978-1-118-06160-2. Cussler, E. L. (1997). Diffusion: MassTransfer in Fluid Systems (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45078-0...
The Journal of Heat and MassTransfer Research is a semiannual peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by Semnan University and the editor-in-chief...
to the diffusivity for masstransfer D. It physically relates the relative thickness of the hydrodynamic layer and mass-transfer boundary layer. It is...
Frontiers in Heat and MassTransfer is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering heat transfer and masstransfer. It is published by Tech...
radiative heat transfer, since convective heat transfer is inefficient in that zone. In this region the plasma will not be perturbed, and any mass motions will...
{h}{Gc_{p}}}={\frac {h}{\rho uc_{p}}}} where h = convection heat transfer coefficient G = mass flow rate of the fluid ρ = density of the fluid cp = specific...
involve fluid dynamics, heat transfer and masstransfer, which are governed mainly by momentum transfer, energy transfer and transport of chemical species...
Second, with the transfer of mass between the two binary components, angular momentum is transferred as well. While masstransfer from a more massive...
number or masstransfer coefficient calculation for fixed and fluidized bed systems. In the elementary form of the continuity equation for mass, in hydrodynamics:...
2019). "Decomposition by film boiling heat transfer of glycerol". International Journal of Heat and MassTransfer. 139: 873–880. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer...
Singer, C.E. (1979). Interstellar Propulsion Using a Pellet Stream for MassTransfer (PDF) (Report). doi:10.2172/5770056. Archived (PDF) from the original...
In masstransfer, the sieving coefficient is a measure of equilibration between the concentrations of two masstransfer streams. It is defined as the mean...
the Rayleigh number plays in natural convection. In the context of masstransfer. the Bejan number is the dimensionless pressure drop along a channel...
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