Ammonia gas is used to nitride Steel by allowing it to diffuse through a metal plate, creating a harder metal. The process conditions are:
- 500°C
- Steel thickness = 2mm
- Ammonia concentration 2 kg/m³ in the gas phase on one side of the plate, 0 kg/m³ on the other side.
If $D_0 = 9.1 \times 10^{-5} m^2/s$ and $Q_d = 168,000 J/mol$, determine:
(a) D, the diffusion coefficient
(b) J, the flux of ammonia into the steel