Mass Transfer Enhancement in Double-pass Concentric-tube Mass Exchangers under Sinusoidal Wall Fluxes with External Recycle

Chii-Dong Ho  ¹, Gwo-Geng Lin¹, Jing-Min Tang², Li-Chien Liu¹, Li-Pang Lin¹ and Jr-Wei Tu¹

¹Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan 25137, R.O.C.
²Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan 25137, R.O.C.

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