Analysis of Mass Transport Phenomena in Ultrafiltration and Microfiltration Membranes.

This review paper focused on i) the mass transport phenomena governing the performance of both ultrafiltration and microfiltration devices and ii) the effects of the pore size distribution, protein adsorption, and protein deposition on the transport characteristics.The actual sieving coefficients (Sa) of polydisperse dextrans through clean asymmetric polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membranes of varying molecular weight cut-off were evaluated as...