Transport phenomena development

The book was the basis for a new course in Transport Phenomena developed at Wisconsin by the three authors in the late 1950s. In the Preface to the book, the authors declare ... 

A critical review of emulsion flow in porous media has been presented. An attempt has been made to identify the various factors that affect the flow of OAV and W/O emulsions in the reservoir. The present methods of investigation are only the beginning of an effort to try to develop an understanding of the transport behavior of emulsions in porous media. The work toward this end has been difficult because of the complex nature of emulsions themselves and their flow in a complex medium. Presently there are only qualitative descriptions and hypotheses available as to the mechanisms involved. A comprehensive model that would describe the transport phenomenon of emulsions in porous media should take into account emulsion and porous medium characteristics, hydrodynamics, as well as the complex fluid-rock interactions. To implement such a study will require a number of experi-... 

The study of electrosynthetic reactions is not a new phenomenon. Such reactions have been the study of investigation for more than a century and a half since Faraday first noted the evolution of ethane from the electrolysis of aqueous acetate solutions. This reaction is more well known as the Kolbe electrolysis [51]. Since the report of Kolbe, chemists have had to wait nearly a century until the development, in the 1960 s, of organic solvents with high-dielectric which have been able to vastly increase the scope of systems that could be studied [52]. Added to this more recently is the synergistic effect that ultrasound should be able to offer in the improvement of the expected reactions by virtue of its ability to clean of surfaces, form fresh surfaces and improve mass transport (which may involve different kinetic and thermodynamic requirements)... 

In addition to the possibility of multiple transport paths, our understanding of reaction mechanisms on LSM is further complicated (as with platinum) by pronounced nonstationary behavior in the form of hysteresis of inductive effects. These effects are sometimes manifest as the often-mentioned (but little-documented) phenomenon of burn-in , a term used in development circles to describe the initial improvement (or sometimes decline) of the cathode kinetics after a few hours or days following initial polarization (after which the performance becomes relatively stable). As recently reported by McIntosh et al., this effect can improve the measured impedance of a composite LSMA SZ cathode by a factor of 5 7relative to an unpolarized cathode at OCV." ° Such an effect is important to understand not only because it may lead to insight about the underlying electrode kinetics (and ways to improve them), but also because it challenges the metrics often used to assess and compare relative cell performance. 

Transfers of energy and material to, from, and through bodies of fluids occur with great frequency in a wide variety of engineering processes. The fact that turbulence in the fluid affects such transfers has long been known, but the complexity of the phenomenon is such as to make a quantitative approach difficult. However, the importance of these transport processes and the marked influence of turbulence upon them make a quantitative study of turbulence an important step in the development of engineering as a science. 

Sevastianov et al.73,74) have developed a model which considers the effect of surface heterogeniety on the adsorption process. They define centers of irreversible adsorption , labeled P, and centers of irreversible desorption , labeled D. They argue, in agreement with Soderquist and Walton, that desorbed material is conformationally altered and thus cannot readsorb — hence desorption is irreversible. The results of this model are given as Fig. 14, taken from Ref. 7J). The model also includes the case where adsorption may be transport limited. The model fits commonly observed adsorption data, including the overshoot phenomenon (Fig. 14, top) (discussed in Ref. 72)) to be discussed later. 

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