The present paper considers the flow of micropolar fluid through a membrane modeled as a swarm of solid cylindrical particles with porous layer using the cell model technique. Traditional boundary conditions on hypothetical cell surface were added with an additional condition: the no spin condition / no couple stress condition. Expressions for velocity and microrotation vector components have been obtained analytically. Effect of various parameters such as particle volume fraction, permeability parameter, micropolarity number etc.on hydrodynamic permeability of membrane has been discussed.
The conductivity, diffusion, and electroosmotic permeability of composites, obtained in different conditions of polyaniline synthesis on the surface or in volume of perfluorinated MF-4SK membrane, were studied. The oxidative polymerization of aniline was carried out in static conditions in mixture of monomer and oxidant solutions, in concentration field by method of successive diffusion of polymerization solutions through the membrane in water, and in an external electrical field. The concentration of polymerization solutions, the type of electron acceptors, duration of synthesis, and current density were varied to obtain a set of composites. The certain advantages of every method of polyaniline chemical template synthesis were revealed to prepare the materials with required set of the electrotransport characteristics.
The Mifil ultrafiltration membrane made from aromatic polyamide PA 100 has been studied using a SmartSPM 1000 atomic force microscope (AIST NT, Zelenograd, Russia). Pores on the AFM images have been identified using the Gwyddion software in two ways, by threshold and watershed methods. The pore size data have been subjected to statistical processing and interpretation. Along with the log normal pore size distribution law, a bimodal curve of a special kind has been considered. The accuracy of the approx imation has been assessed using Pearson's goodness of fit test, in which the bimodal distribution has demon strated better agreement with the experimental data. It has been shown that the watershed method provides more detailed information about the pore size distribution of the investigated membrane.
The diffusion permeability through new hybrid materials based on a Nafion-type membrane (MF-4SC) and nanotubes of halloysite is investigated using the Nernst-Planck approach. A method of quantitative evaluation of physicochemical parameters (averaged and individual diffusion coefficients and averaged distribution coefficients of ion pairs in the membrane) of system "electrolyte solution-ion-exchange membrane-water", which was proposed earlier, is further developed. The parameters of hybrid membranes on the base of MF-4SC and nanotubes of halloysite (5% wt and 8% wt) are obtained from experimental data on diffusion permeability of NaCl solutions using theoretical calculations. New model of three-layer membrane system can be used for refining calculated results with taking into account both diffusive layers. It is shown that adding of halloysite nanotubes into the membrane volume noticeably affects exchange capacity as well as structural and transport characteristics of original perfluorinated membranes. Hybrid membranes on the base of MF-4SC and halloysite nanotubes can be used in fuel cells and catalysis.
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