Question

The purification of hydrogen gas is possible by diffusion through a thin palladium sheet. Calculate the number of kilograms of hydrogen that pass per hour through a 4.0-mm-thick sheet of palladium having an area of 0.13 m2 at 500°C. Assume a diffusion coefficient of 5.1 × 10-8 m2/s, that the concentrations at the high- and low-pressure sides of the plates are 2.9 and 0.31 kg/m3 of hydrogen per cubic meter of palladium, and that steady-state conditions have been attained.

Answer 1

Answer: 5.36×10-3kg/h

Where 10-3 is 10 exponential 3 or 10 raised to the power of -3.

Explanation:using the formula

M =JAt = -DAt×Dc/Dx

Where D is change in the respective variables. Insulting the values we get,

=5.1 × 10-8 × 0.13 × 3600 × 2.9 × 0.31 / 4×10-3.

=5.36×10-3kg/h