TY  - JOUR
AU  - Unije, Unoaku Victoria
AU  - Mücke, Robert
AU  - Baumann, Stefan
AU  - Guillon, Olivier
TI  - Comparison of the Simplification of the Pressure Profiles Solving the Binary Friction Model for Asymmetric Membranes
JO  - Membranes
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SN  - 2077-0375
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - FZJ-2017-07012
SP  - 58
PY  - 2017
AB  - The gas flow through porous media including that of multiple species is frequently described by the binary friction model (BFM) considering the binary diffusion, Knudsen diffusion, and viscous flow. Therefore, a numerical simulation was performed on a microporous support of an asymmetric oxygen transport membrane. As its exact numerical solution is complicated and not always possible, the results of two different levels of simplification of the pressure profiles within the porous support are compared to the exact numerical solution. The simplification using a constant pressure equal to the gas pressure outside the support leads to a deviation by up to 0.45 mL·min−1·cm−2 from the exact solution under certain operating condition. A different simplification using a constant pressure averaged between the outside of the support and the support/membrane interface reduces this deviation to zero. Therefore, this is a useful measure to reduce computational efforts when implementing the Binary Friction Model in computational fluid dynamics simulations.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000417347100004
DO  - DOI:10.3390/membranes7040058
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/838400
ER  -