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The term “mass transfer” is used here in a specialized sense, namely the transport of a substance that is involved as a component (constituent, species) in a fluid mixture. An example is the transport of salt in saline water. As we shall see below, convective mass transfer is analogous to convective heat transfer.
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Nield, D.A., Bejan, A. (1992). Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows. In: Convection in Porous Media. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2175-1_3
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