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Transfer of gas to dissolved oxygen in water via porous and nonporous polymer membranes
Author(s) -
Yasuda H.,
Lamaze C. E.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1972.070160306
Subject(s) - membrane , silicone rubber , chemical engineering , semipermeable membrane , porous medium , permeability (electromagnetism) , polymer , oxygen , chemistry , porosity , materials science , chromatography , organic chemistry , biochemistry , engineering
The transfer rates of oxygen via polymer membranes in gas–membrane–gas and gas–membrane–water (dissolved oxygen) were investigated with various porous membranes and compared with results of silicone rubber sheet (nonporous, homogeneous polymer membrane). With a nonporous membrane, the permeability constant obtained by gas–membrane–gas represents the true membrane permeability in gas–membrane–water system, and consequently the transport resistance due to boundary layer can be quantitatively estimated. With a porous membrane, the data in gas–membrane–gas system (under applied pressure) merely represent the gas effusion rate of the membrane and are not directly related to the dissolved oxygen transfer rate in gas–membrane–water system. The penetration of liquid water into the pores of porous membrane is the most important controlling factor for the dissolved oxygen transfer rate of a porous membrane. With a porous membrane in which liquid water does not penetrate into the pore, the overall transfer rate of dissolved oxygen reaches the level which corresponds to that of the boundary layer found with silicone rubber membrane.