[A pressure gravity-diffusive effect for flat polymeric membrane and ternary non-electrolyte solutions]

Polim Med. 2001;31(1-2):45-52.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

In this paper the pressure gravidiffusive model equation in a single-membrane osmotic-diffusive cell is elaborated. In this cell the flat, microporous and symmetric polymeric membrane so-called Nephrophane positioned horizontally separated water and binary (aqueous glucose or aqueous ethanol) or ternary (glucose in 0.2 mol.l-1 aqueous ethanol or ethanol in 0.05 mol.l-1 aqueous glucose) non-electrolyte solutions. The calculations of pressure gravidiffusive effects for the configurations A and B of the single-membrane osmotic-diffusive cell were elaborated. In configuration A solution was placed in compartment below membrane and in configuration B--above membrane. The calculated result are interpreted in terms of the convective instability that increases the diffusive permeability coefficient of complex: concentration boundary layer/membrane/concentration boundary layer.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Cell Membrane / metabolism
  • Diffusion
  • Glucose Solution, Hypertonic / chemistry
  • Gravitation
  • Membranes, Artificial*
  • Models, Biological*
  • Osmosis
  • Permeability
  • Polymers
  • Pressure
  • Solutions / chemistry*
  • Water / chemistry

Substances

  • Glucose Solution, Hypertonic
  • Membranes, Artificial
  • Polymers
  • Solutions
  • Water