System For Measuring Osmotic Transport Properties of a Membrane

The membrane test cell (MTC) is an automated laboratory apparatus that applies a known osmotic potential across a membrane and measures the kinetics of the resulting transport of solvents across the membrane as a function of time. Data acquired by use of the MTC should prove especially helpful in designing industrial processes that rely on membrane separation techniques. Examples of such processes include desalination, recovery of designated chemicals from process streams, and some recycling operations.