To begin, run a start301 session to load your compound
data, choosing to:
- Start a new session
- Mass & Energy Balances
- Use Ceng 301 Database
- Use temperature units of Kelvin
- Input a file name (or not!)
- Input the number of compounds ( in this case 3)
- Enter the names of compounds (CO2, O2, N2)
- With zero reactions
- With zero streams
Matlab now has your data loaded, and you can use the program
mixmu to find the viscosity of the mixture at a low density. A help
on the program will explain the arguments and the output. (NOTE:
Watch your units - this program gives viscosity in kg/m/s when BS&L
uses g/cm/s.)
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The program mixmu details:
function mu=mixmu(zs,T,j) % mixmu(zs,T,j) finds the viscosity of a low density gas mixture % zs gives the mol fraction of each compound % T gives the temperature in the units of Tdeg % j gives the indices of the compounds (if missing it includes % all compounds. zs must be consistent with j. % Based on equations 1.4-19 and 20 in BS&L % The viscosity is given in kg/m/s global mw if nargin<3 j=1:length(mw); end [phi,mus]=mixphi(T,j); den=phi*zs'; mu=zs*(mus./den); ___________________________Using mixmu to compute the viscosity of the mixture:
or in BS&L units:
1.7084e-04
g/cm/s
and this turns out to be fairly close to the answer calculated in the book.