Question: Two different shapes are being considered fer a catalyst particle: sphericatignd cylindrical. The particle will be made up of three layers, with either a spherical

Two different shapes are being considered fer a catalyst particle: sphericatignd cylindrical. The particle will be made up of three layers, with either a spherical or cylindrical inert solid core coated with a catalyst and surrounded with a permeable outer layer. The outer layer will be made up of a highly porous material with a void fraction of 0.60. The particle will be suspended in a gas stream of mixture A and B maintained at a constant concentration of cA,inf.. A diffuses into the particle and reacts at the surface of the catalyst in the heterogeneous reaction
AB
with surface reaction rate constant ks. Compare the fiux and mole fraction of species A at the catalyst surface for a reaction carried out at 300C and 1.0atm with ks=2.0cms,DAB=0.30cm2s, and 50mole%A maintained in the gas phase for each particle shape. The distance from the center of a radial cross section of the particle to the catalyst surface is 0.3cm, and the outer radius is 0.5cm. If needed, assume the tortuosity of the porous material is 1.65. Consider only radial diffusion. (Adapted from Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer by J.R. Welty,
et.al.(2019))
 Two different shapes are being considered fer a catalyst particle: sphericatignd

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