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 1.9-mm-thick sheet of palladium having an area of 0.31 m2 at 500°C. Assume a diffusion coefficient of 7.8 × 10-8 m2/s, that the concentrations at the high- and low-pressure sides of the plates are 2.9 and 0.25 kg/m3 of hydrogen per cubic meter of palladium, and that steady-state conditions have been attained.

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