A NEW MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT OF PHENOL DESORPTION WITHIN POLYMERIC RESIN UNDER ULTRASOUND

4 new model, phase equilibrium-kinetics model (PEKM), for estimation of diffusioncoefficient was proposed in this paper. Kinetic experiments of phenol desorption on NKAII resin inthe presence and the absence of ultrasound were separately conducted, and diffusion coefficients ofphenol within an adsorbent particle were estimated by means of proposed PEKM and classicsimplified model. Results show that the use of ultrasound not only changes the phase equilibriumstate of NKAll resin/phenol/water system which had been equilibrium at normal condition, but alsoenhances diffusion of phenol within the resin. The diffusion coefficient of phenol in the resin in thefield of ultrasound increases in an order of magnitude in comparison with the diffusion coefficientdetermined under no ultrasound Experimental results also indicated that the diffusion coefficientsestimated by PEKM were more accurate than that estimated by the classic simplified model.     

A NEW MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT OF PHENOL DESORPTION WITHIN POLYMERIC RESIN UNDER ULTRASOUND

1. INTRODUCTION Ultrasound is a kind of mechanical wave whose frequency is more than 20 kilohertz. It can enhance the mass transfer, increase the rate and conversion of chemical reaction, change the reaction pathway [1,2] and accelerate the conversion of…