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Separation does not take place spontaneously and to drive any separation process, work must be done on the overall system to supply the necessary increase in free energy. The forces—pressure, electric potential and concentration gradients—act differently on the components to be separated and constitute an important variable in membrane and process selection. When several transportable substances are present together, they interact to influence one another’s permeation properties in many ways. They may affect the solubility and diffusion coefficients of all the substances in the membrane and their fluxes may interact by direct exchange of molecular momentum.
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Meares, P. (1986). Separation by Membranes. In: Bungay, P.M., Lonsdale, H.K., de Pinho, M.N. (eds) Synthetic Membranes: Science, Engineering and Applications. NATO ASI Series, vol 181. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4712-2_5
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