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Journal of Membrane Science, Vol.86, No.1-2, 1-18, 1994
Phenomenological Theory of Pressure-Driven Transport of Ternary Electrolyte-Solutions with a Common Coion and Its Specification for Capillary Space-Charge Model
Pressure-driven transport of ternary electrolyte solutions has been considered within the scope of irreversible thermodynamics. At small thermodynamic forces, a general solution for an n-ionic system has been obtained and, further, specified and examined for a ternary system with a common colon. With the help of the continuous version of irreversible thermodynamics, two further limiting cases have been considered, namely, one of large Peclet numbers and one of a small addition of one of the electrolytes. Thermodynamic results have been exemplified within the scope of the capillary space-charge model. Parameters which govern the separation of counterions have been examined as functions of fixed charge density, pore size, feed ionic strength, the ratio of counterion mobilities and charges. A significant separation of counterions with different mobilities and/or charges was predicted.