Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
89 (1988), S. 2278-2280
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
A new general equation has been developed for the lag time for a dilute diffusant permeating through a one-dimensional membrane in which both diffusivity D and partition coefficient K are dependent on position. The lag time is given by tL=∫h0K(x)[∫x0 R(y)dy][∫hxR(y)dy] ×dx/ ∫h0R(x)dx, where h is the membrane thickness and R(x)=1/[D(x)K(x)]. Formulas derived from this equation include those for: lag time in the presence of an electrical potential gradient; lag time in a multilaminar periodic membrane; and an upper bound for lag time given by tL 〈(h2/ 4Deff), where Deff is the effective diffusivity as deduced from steady-state partitioning and permeability measurements. The lag time is shown to be independent of the direction of diffusion. A computational technique is presented in which the equation for tL is rearranged to a system of two differential equations, which are readily solvable by numerical integration, even when the system has discontinuities in D and K which would increase the difficulty of evaluating the double integral directly.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.455070
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