A simplified procedure for ion-exchange membrane characterisation

A new procedure for the characterisation of the transport properties of ion-exchange membranes (IEM) is proposed. Only three characteristics have to be measured: the electrical conductivity, the diffusion permeability coefficient and the apparent transport number. To complete the set of parameters, two complementary characteristics, the true counter-ion transport number and the water transport number, are calculated from the Scatchard equation and from a novel equation deduced earlier. The possibilities to reduce the number of initial measurements are discussed in three cases.

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