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Porous Medium Equation in Graphene Oxide Membrane: Nonlinear Dependence of Permeability on Pressure Gradient
1Department of Computing and Control Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Membrane performance in gas separation is quantified by its selectivity, determined as a ratio of measured gas permeabilities of given gases at fixed pressure difference. In this manuscript a nonlinear dependence of gas permeability on pressure difference observed in the measurements of gas permeability of graphene oxide membrane on a manometric integral permeameter is reported. We show that after reasoned assumptions and simplifications in the mathematical description of the experiment, only static properties of any proposed governing equation can be studied, in order to analyze the permeation rate for different pressure differences. Porous Medium Equation is proposed as a suitable governing equation for the gas permeation, as it manages to predict a nonlinear behavior which is consistent with the measured data. A coefficient responsible for the nonlinearity, the polytropic exponent, is determined to be gas-specific-implications on selectivity are discussed, alongside possible hints to a deeper physical interpretation of its actual value.
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