On the role of diffusivity ratio and partition coefficient in diffusional molecular transport in binary composite materials, with special reference to the Maxwell equation

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• 作者：John H. Petropoulos^a ; Kyriaki G. Papadokostaki^a ; Matteo Minelli^b ; Ferruccio Doghieri^b ; ^{ferruccio.doghieri@unibo.it" class="auth_mail}
• 关键词：Composite materials ; Permeability models ; Solubility coefficient ; Partition coefficient
• 刊名：Journal of Membrane Science
• 出版年：15 April, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：456
• 期：Complete
• 页码：162-166
• 全文大小：300 K

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A criticism is offered in this paper of conclusions stated in two recent works [Marand and Surapathi, J. Membr. Sci. 415 (2012) 871; Singh et al., J. Membr. Sci. 448 (2013) 160] with reference to properties of composite materials which are relevant to the determination of steady state permeance of solute species. The discussion aims at clarifying conditions for the validity of 鈥減ermeability models鈥? which claim for the role of the permeability ratio P_A/P_B in a binary composite of phases A and B, as the only parameter needed to estimate the overall relative effective permeability P_M/P_B, when size/shape distribution and arrangement of domains of the two phases are assigned. In this note, the thesis is rejected of a separate role for the solubility or partition coefficient in the performance of mixed matrix membranes and attention is driven to published numerical results which deserve to be revised.