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MEMBRANE DIFFUSION [19 records]

Record 1 2024-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
  • Electrolysis (Electrokinetics)
CONT

The transmembrane pressure and membrane charge were confirmed as important factors changing the relative dominance of the three ion transport mechanisms :diffusion, convection and electromigration. In weakly charged membranes, diffusion is predominant, even at high water fluxes. The electromigration flux can counteract a strong convective flux in highly charged membranes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
  • Électrolyse (Électrocinétique)

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
  • Ocean Energy
CONT

Pressure retarded osmosis(PRO) uses the selective diffusion of water across a membrane in order to pressurize seawater. Freshwater and seawater are placed on either side of a membrane, and the seawater side is pressurized. As the seawater side increases in pressure and decreases in salinity, part of the water is discharged through a turbine while the rest is put in a pressure exchanger to pressurize the incoming seawater...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
  • Énergie océanique
CONT

Pour récupérer l'énergie bleue, deux technologies existent déjà. Elles se fondent sur une membrane placée entre deux contenants de salinité différente. La première, l'osmose à pression retardée […], fonctionne en laissant l'eau douce d'un des contenants traverser la membrane semi-perméable qui la sépare de l'eau salée de l'autre contenant pour diminuer la concentration en sel de celui-ci. L'augmentation de la pression dans le contenant d'eau salée permet de produire de l'énergie mécanique en actionnant une turbine.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biotechnology
  • Biophysics
DEF

A homogeneous hydrogel membrane through which solvents and solutes are transported by molecular diffusion under the action of a concentration or activity gradient.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biotechnologie
  • Biophysique

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

Procedure, based on the liquid surfactant membrane concept, for providing immobilized enzymes within a nonpermanent microcapsule. Enzyme immobilization is brought about by emulsifying an aqueous enzyme solution with a surfactant to form the liquid membrane encapsulated enzymes.

OBS

The major advantages of this procedure are the nonchemical nature of the method and its reversibility of immobilization. However, the possibility of loss of enzyme by diffusion, and the same diffusion phenomenon controlling passage of substrates and products through the liquid membrane via a solubility mechanism rather than size exclusion mechanism, can be a disadvantage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
DEF

Méthode d'immobilisation d'enzymes par micro-encapsulation qui consiste à soumettre des agrégats de phospholipides dispersés dans la solution enzymatique à la sonication : on obtient des sphérules constituées d'une double couche lipidique emprisonnant des gouttelettes d'enzyme en solution aqueuse. A l'inverse des autres techniques, la pénétration du substrat ne dépend pas alors de la taille des pores de la membrane mais de sa solubilité dans les constituants lipidiques.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
  • Biotechnology
DEF

Electrode which results from the union of an enzyme with an electronic sensor (an ion-selective electrode). The electrode is useful for the assay of organic and inorganic compounds, in a manner as simple as a pH measurement with a glass electrode.

CONT

The earliest enzyme electrodes consisted of an electrochemical sensor, a semipermeable membrane and an intermediate layer containing the enzyme. This system required diffusion of the substrate through the membrane, there to react with the enzyme and so causing production or consumption of a material which was then measured by the electrochemical sensor.... Later enzyme electrodes dispensed with the semipermeable membrane and to attain more rapid response times used enzymes immobilised on easily accessible surfaces of inorganic supports.

OBS

Indirect enzyme electrodes involve the detection of an enzyme reactant by a specific, usually ion-selective electrode. Direct enzyme electrodes incorporate redox enzymes coupled to an electrode with a flow of electrons between the cofactor involved in the enzyme reaction and the electrode.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
  • Biotechnologie
DEF

Électrode recouverte d'une couche enzymatique adaptée aux cas où la substance à doser ne permet pas une mesure électrique directe mais où l'un des produits de la réaction enzymatique permet cette mesure.

CONT

Les techniques d'immobilisation ou de confinement d'enzymes ou autre matériel biologique se sont largement développées ces dernières années. Parmi les méthodes utilisées pour la réalisation d'électrodes à enzymes, la fixation covalente sur des supports insolubles préalablement activés, la réticulation, l'inclusion dans un gel ainsi que le confinement d'enzymes en solution sont les plus employées.

Key term(s)
  • électrode enzyme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias biológicas
  • Biotecnología
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Record 6 2010-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

Phenomenon which arises as a result of the build-up of a layer of rejected solute at the membrane surface which impedes solvent flow. The resistance to flow due to this layer thus increases until a point is reached where the rate of diffusion of solute away from the polarization layer equals the rate of deposition. This phenomenon also explains why the solvent flux often becomes invariant with an increasing transmembrane pressure drop. Although solvent flux through a membrane is a hydraulic pressure-activated process and should increase with increasing pressure, a point is reached where the rate of build-up of the solute polarization layer is such that flow is impeded and further increases in pressure have no effect.

CONT

Concentration is the only important application with regard to initial enzyme recovery. Coarse fractionation is rarely attempted on a large scale, mainly because concentration polarisation ... occurs during ultra-filtration, effectively preventing an adequate separation. Equally, removal of salts and low molecular weight species alone is not the prime consideration, although ultrafiltration is commonly used to this end later in enzyme purification processes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
CONT

Grâce à leurs propriétés plastiques, les supports membranaires peuvent équiper des réacteurs de conceptions technologiques très diverses. Dans certains cas, la membrane constitue une simple barrière physique retenant les macromolécules dans le compartiment réactionnel : c'est le principe des membranes d'ultrafiltration utilisées pour récupérer le biocatalyseur dans les réacteurs agités. [...] Le principal inconvénient de cette technique est le phénomène de "polarisation" qui se traduit par une accumulation des composés de haut poids moléculaire sur la face amont de la membrane et un colmatage des pores.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias biológicas
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Record 7 2010-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

Depends upon the diffusion of water vapor through a porous membrane. In its simplest form, this instrument consists of a closed chamber having porous walls and containing a hygroscopic compound. The absorption of water vapor by the compound causes a pressure drop within the chamber, which is measured by a manometer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

Il existe six types de phénomènes physiques dont la mesure permet d'atteindre la détermination du contenu de l'atmosphère en vapeur d'eau. On peut donc distinguer six types d'hygromètres : [...] ceux qui mesurent la diffusion de la vapeur d'eau à travers un milieu poreux (hygromètre à diffusion).

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Biotechnology
DEF

The separation of substances of different molecular weight by diffusion through a selectively permeable membrane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Biotechnologie
DEF

Opération de séparation de composés dissous par passage au travers d'une membrane semi-perméable, de la solution la plus concentrée vers la plus diluée, sous l'action du gradient de concentration réel transmembranaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
  • Biotecnología
DEF

Método de análisis y separación fundado en la propiedad que tienen ciertos cuerpos [...] de atravesar las membranas porosas.

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Record 9 2003-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fuel Cells (Electr.)
DEF

[Conductive material in a fuel cell] which allows the diffusion of hydrogen and oxygen over both sides of the MEA [Membrane electrode assembly], whilst also filtering out water produced on the catalyst layer surface.

CONT

A bipolar lithium/sulfide battery ... employs disk-shaped voltaic cells assembled into a series-connected stack in which adjacent cells share a common current collector, called the bipolar plate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Piles à combustible (Électricité)
CONT

Le deuxième rôle [des plaques bipolaires] est d'être un collecteur de courant. Les électrons produits par l'oxydation de l'hydrogène sortent par l'anode, traversent le support d'anode et ensuite la plaque. Ils quittent ensuite la pile et alimentent le circuit extérieur.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Molecular Biology
  • Morphology and General Physiology
CONT

Two main categories of molecule transport exist in cells, active transport and passive transport... For small molecules such as oxygen, ethanol, and carbon dioxide, the molecules could easily cross the membrane via passive transport, in the form of simple diffusion through a concentration gradient...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie moléculaire
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
DEF

Entraînement d'ions ou de petites molécules au travers d'une membrane biologique par un solvant, le plus souvent d'eau.

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Climate Change
  • Measuring Instruments (Engineering)
CONT

The CanOxy PlateTM Passive Ozone Monitor [...] contains a renewable paper impregnated with a reagent and covered with a diffusion membrane. Both are enclosed in a plastic dish 4 cm in diameter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Changements climatiques
  • Instruments de mesure (Ingénierie)
CONT

La CanOxy PlateMC, un dispositif de surveillance passive de l'ozone [...] est composée d'un papier renouvelable imprégné d'un réactif et recouvert d'une membrane de diffusion, les deux étant disposés dans un récipient de plastique de 4 cm de diamètre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cambio climático
  • Instrumentos de medida (Ingeniería)
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Record 12 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

... supple gazometers for storing bio-gases. These reservoirs have a double membrane, can store gases with a high diffusion potential... These textile storage balloons are insensitive to frost and corrosion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
CONT

[...] gazomètres souples de stockage des bio-gaz. Ces réservoirs à double membrane, capables de contenir des gaz à fort pouvoir de diffusion [..] Ces ballons de stockage textiles sont insensibles au gel, à la corrosion [...]

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

... supple gazometers for storing bio-gases. These reservoirs have a double membrane, can store gases with a high diffusion potential... These textile storage balloons are insensitive to frost and corrosion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
CONT

[...] gazomètres souples de stockage des bio-gaz. Ces réservoirs à double membrane, capables de contenir des gaz à fort pouvoir de diffusion [...] Ces ballons de stockage textiles sont insensibles au gel, à la corrosion [...]

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

... supple gazometers for storing bio-gases. These reservoirs have a double membrane, can store gases with a high diffusion potential... These textile storage balloons are insensitive to frost and corrosion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
CONT

[...] gazomètres souples de stockage des bio-gaz. Ces réservoirs à double membrane, capables de contenir des gaz à fort pouvoir de diffusion [...] Ces ballons de stockage textiles sont insensibles au gel, à la corrosion [...]

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

... supple gazometers for storing bio-gases. These reservoirs have a double membrane, can store gases with a high diffusion potential... These textile storage balloons are insensitive to frost and corrosion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
CONT

[...] gazomètres souples de stockage des bio-gaz. Ces réservoirs à double membrane, capables de contenir des gaz à fort pouvoir de diffusion [...] Ces ballons de stockage textiles sont insensibles au gel, à la corrosion [...]

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

... supple gazometers for storing bio-gases. These reservoirs have a double membrane, can store gases with a high diffusion potential and are used for both recovering and storing such gases(mainly methane, but also the bad-smelling types)... These textile storage balloons are insensitive to frost and corrosion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
CONT

[...] gazomètres souples de stockage des bio-gaz. Ces réservoirs à double membrane, capables de contenir des gaz à fort pouvoir de diffusion, sont utilisés pour récupérer et contenir les gaz (du méthane, mais aussi des gaz malodorants) [...] Ces ballons de stockage textiles sont insensibles au gel, à la corrosion [...]

Spanish

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Record 17 2001-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

... supple gazometers for storing bio-gases. These reservoirs have a double membrane, can store gases with a high diffusion potential... These textile storage balloons are insensitive to frost and corrosion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
CONT

[...] gazomètres souples de stockage des bio-gaz. Ces réservoirs à double membrane, capables de contenir des gaz à fort pouvoir de diffusion [...] Ces ballons de stockage textiles sont insensibles au gel, à la corrosion [...]

Spanish

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Record 18 2000-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Printed Circuits and Microelectronics
CONT

The phenomenon which causes solutes to concentrate at the filter's membrane surface forming a gel layer. The thickness of this gel layer will increase until its hydraulic resistance to solvent transport reduces the flux to an equilibrium value such that the convective transport of solutes on the surface equals the back diffusion from the surface. In single-pass operation the concentration of sulutes is low, so concentration polarization does not limit flux.

Key term(s)
  • concentration polarisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Circuits imprimés et micro-électronique

Spanish

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Record 19 1986-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
DEF

Transpiration or outward diffusion of water vapor into the atmosphere through the stomata and lenticula, the water having been previously evaporated from imbibed membrane into gas spaces within the plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Diffusion de la vapeur d'eau dans l'atmosphère, à travers les stomates et les lenticelles des plantes.

Spanish

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