ISSN:
0001-1541
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
A method is presented to estimate the diffusivities of electrolytes in concentrated multicomponent systems. The method is based on the Stefan-Maxwell flux equations. Explicit expressions have been developed for the phenomenological transport coefficients. These expressions incorporate the effects of solvation, viscosity, and ionic interactions. It has been shown that multicomponent diffusion behavior can be related to corresponding single-electrolyte and tracer diffusion cases. Thus, solvation effects are estimated from single-electrolyte data, and ion-ion interaction effects are obtained from tracer diffusion studies. The method has been tested for the ternary system NaCl-KCl, at concentrations of up to 3.0 M, and for corresponding single-electrolyte and tracer diffusion cases at concentrations of up to 4.0 M. In general, the method predicts phenomenological coefficient values within 1.5% of the experimental values for univalent systems.
Additional Material:
7 Tab.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690330309
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