Journal Article

FZJ-2021-05385

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Geometrical Influence on Particle Transport in Cross-Flow Ultrafiltration: Cylindrical and Flat Sheet Membranes

Park, G. W. (Corresponding author)FZJ* ; Nägele, G.FZJ*

2021
MDPI Basel

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/29582  doi:10.3390/membranes11120960

Abstract: Cross-flow ultrafiltration is a pressure-driven separation and enrichment process of small colloidal particles where a colloidal feed dispersion is continuously pumped through a membrane pipe permeable to the solvent only. We present a semi-analytic modified boundary layer approximation (mBLA) method for calculating the inhomogeneous concentration-polarization (CP) layer of particles near the membrane and the dispersion flow in a cross-flow filtration setup with a hollow fiber membrane. Conditions are established for which unwarranted axial flow and permeate flow reversal are excluded, and non-monotonic CP profiles are observed. The permeate flux is linked to the particle concentration on the membrane wall using the Darcy–Starling expression invoking axially varying osmotic and trans-membrane pressures. Results are discussed for dispersions of hard spheres serving as a reference system and for solvent-permeable particles mimicking non-ionic microgels. Accurate analytic expressions are employed for the concentration and solvent permeability dependent dispersion viscosity and gradient diffusion coefficient entering into the effective Stokes flow and advection–diffusion equations. We show that the mBLA concentration and flow profiles are in quantitative agreement with results by a finite element method. The mBLA results are compared with predictions by an earlier CP layer similarity solution, showing the higher precision of the former method.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Biomakromolekulare Systeme und Prozesse (IBI-4)

Research Program(s):

1. 5241 - Molecular Information Processing in Cellular Systems (POF4-524) (POF4-524)
2. SFB 985 B06 - Kontinuierliche Trennung und Aufkonzentrierung von Mikrogelen (B06) (221475706) (221475706)

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