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GATE Mass Transfer: Fick's laws, molecular diffusion and mass transfer coefficients – Previous Year Questions

7 GATE previous year questions on Fick's laws, molecular diffusion and mass transfer coefficients (Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 CH Q17 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider two stationary spherical pure water droplets of diameters d 1 and 2d 1. CO 2 diffuses into the droplets from the surroundings. If the rate of…
  2. GATE 2022 CH Q31 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Consider steady-state diffusion in a binary A-B liquid at constant temperature and pressure. The mole-fraction of A at two different locations is 0.8…
  3. GATE 2023 CH Q35 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – In a binary gas-liquid system, N A,EMD is the molar flux of a gas A for equimolar counter diffusion with a liquid B. N A,UMD is the molar flux of A…
  4. GATE 2024 CH Q17 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider the steady, uni-directional diffusion of a binary mixture of A and B across a vertical slab of dimensions 0.2 m × 0.1 m × 0.02 m as shown in…
  5. GATE 2024 CH Q41 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Sulfur dioxide (SO 2) gas diffuses through a stagnant air-film of thickness 2 mm at 1 bar and 30 °C. The diffusion coefficient of SO 2 in air is 1…
  6. GATE 2025 CH Q56 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Solute A is absorbed from a gas into water in a packed bed operating at steady state. The absorber operating pressure and temperature are 1 atm and…
  7. GATE 2026 CH Q33 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Consider a non-reactive binary mixture of two ideal gases A and B in an isothermal horizontal closed tube. Due to the concentration difference at the…