Cellulose acetate membranes were prepared from several Manjikian type casting solutions by changing the ratio of weight percent of formamide (F) to cellulose acetate (CA), that is, F/CA-value from 0.74 to 2.94. For these membranes, their transport coefficients (
Lp, σ, and
P) in Spiegler-Kedem equation and coupling coefficient
Lpπ were obtained by reverse osmosis experiment. The free and bound water content in these membranes were investigated by means of differential scanning calorimetry.
An attempt was made to obtain the correlation between both the free and bound water content and the phenomenological coefficients (
Lp and
Lpπ). The
Lp and (-
Lpπ) can be represented in terms of the external velocity of water (υ
w/
ΔP) and the velocity of solute relative to that of water (υ
w-υ
s)/
ΔP, per unit pressure, respectively, as reported by Katchalsky and Curran.
It was stated that the coupling coefficient (-
Lpπ)=(υ
w-υ
s)/
ΔP was concerned with the bound water content, and the hydraulic permeability
Lp=(υ
w/
ΔP), also with the bound water content so far as 2 of F/CA-value, but above 2, the
Lp, with the free water content.
In the range (F/CA-value<2) that the role of bound water take spart in water permeation, the increase of the bound water content gave little effect on the solute permeation, but in the range (F/CA-value>2) that the role of free water does part in water permeation, the amount of solute permeation through the membranes increased steeply.
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