What is the minimum time it will take for all the taxol to

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A stent is used to "prop up" a clogged artery to allow blood to pass through it. But stents can also be loaded with drugs to faciliate the tied release of the drug into the body, especially if the drug is not very soluble in body fluids. Consider the very simple stent design as illustrated below. The pole of the stent, which is 0.2cm in diameter and 1.0cm in lenght is coated with the anticancer drug Taxol. The thickness of the coating is 0.01cm and 5.0mg total taxol is loaded. blood flows through the 1.0cm diameter cylindrical blood vessel at a volumetric flow rate of 10.0cm3/s. Taxol is not very soluble in aqueous environments; the maximum solubility of taxol in blood is 2.5*10^-4 mg/cm3. The viscosity of blood is 0.040g/cm*s and its density is 1.05g/cm3. Blood is a complex fluid but you can assume that its average molecular weight is close to that of liquid water. The molecular diffusion coefficient of taxol in fluid blood is Dab=1.0*10^-6 cm2/s. A) what is the convective mass transfer coefficient, kc around the outer surface of the cylindrical portion of the stent, for the solute Taxol?. B) what is the minimum time it will take for all the taxol to be completely discharged from the stent?

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