Solution transport

What is the role of the shape, size, and other molecular and chemical characteristics of the transporting solute on the rate of transport ... 

Passive transport flux is therefore linearly dependent on mucosal solute concentration, provided the transported solute is readily removed by the villus blood supply (sink conditions). 

The sole purpose of the filter support and any applied extracellular matrix is simply to provide a surface for cell attachment and thus to provide mechanical support to the monolayer. However, the filter and matrix also can act as serial barriers to solute movement after diffusion through the cell monolayer. The important variables are the chemical composition of the filter, porosity, pore size, and overall thickness. In some cases, pore tortuosity also can be important. It is desired that the filter, with or without an added matrix, provide a favorable surface to which the cells can attach. However, in some cases these properties can also result in an attractive surface for nonspecific adsorption of the transported solute. In these instances, the appearance of the solute in the receiver compartment of the diffusion cell will not be a true reflection of its movement across the mono-layer. Such problems must be examined on a case-by-case basis. 

Oligopeptide transporter (Solute carrier family 15, member 1 (SLC15A1))... 

The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)-dependent carbohydrate phosphotransferase systems (PTS) are characterised by their unique mechanism of group translocation. The transported solute is chemically modified (i.e. phos-phorylated) during the process (for comprehensive reviews see [151,152] and... 

Other solute transporters (solute carrier protein [SLC]) are also expressed in the alveolus. The mRNA transcripts of glucose transporters, GLUT1, GLUT4, GLUT5 and SGLT1, have been detected in freshly isolated rat ATII cells by... 

As continuing sedimentation increases the depth of a sedimentary layer relative to the seafloor, the overlying pressure increases because of the increased weight of the additional particles. The increased pressure leads to particle compaction if the pore waters can escape upward. Under these conditions, sedimentation generates an upward advective flow of pore water. This flow has the potential to transport solutes. 

In this chapter, we will review various solution techniques for the diffusion equation, which is generally dehned as the mass transport equation with diffusive terms. These techniques will be applied to chemical transport solutions in sediments. There are also a number of applications to chemical transport in biohlms. There are many other applications of the diffusion equation, including most of the topics of this text, but they require more background with regard to the physics of mixing processes, which will be addressed in later chapters. 

At sufficiently high concentrations of the transported solute particles, the surface coverage becomes important and non-linear laws for the rate of adsorption should be used. 

In transport by migration or diffusion, the solute particle moves through a stationary solvent. Convection is a totally different process in which the solution as a whole is transported. Solute species reach or leave the vicinity of the electrode by being entrained in a moving solution. 

Forced Convection. An additional complication arises from convection in the melt forced by the motion of the slider and only marginally assisted by the gas flow above the melt. Forced convection will transport solute across the substrate from the back edge. Moving a solid horizontal boundary across the bottom of an initially stagnant and semiinfinite liquid is a classical problem of unsteady viscous flow (91). The ratio of the velocity of the fluid in the direction of motion, v(y), to the solid-boundary velocity, V, is given by... 

Figure 4 Required market incremental size vs. gas transportation solutions (Source Jensen Associates, Inc.).

One method of transporting solutions and compounds in low permeability soils is the application of an electric current to the soil using a process called Electroosmosis (EO). EO fluid flow is a result of ions movement in the double layer of clay surfaces. For this reason, EO is ideally suited to fine-grained, clay-rich soils. The magnitude of electroosmotic... 

The proposed model consists of a biphasic mechanical description of the tissue engineered construct. The resulting fluid velocity and displacement fields are used for evaluating solute transport. Solute concentrations determine biosynthetic behavior. A finite deformation biphasic displacement-velocity-pressure (u-v-p) formulation is implemented [12, 7], Compared to the more standard u-p element the mixed treatment of the Darcy problem enables an increased accuracy for the fluid velocity field which is of primary interest here. The system to be solved increases however considerably and for multidimensional flow the use of either stabilized methods or Raviart-Thomas type elements is required [15, 10]. To model solute transport the input features of a standard convection-diffusion element for compressible flows are employed [20], For flexibility (non-linear) solute uptake is included using Strang operator splitting, decoupling the transport equations [9],... 

Carrier proteins are highly selective, transporting solutes with specific chemical structures. As they are normally involved in the transport of many naturally occurring compounds they will often transport drugs with structures related to these natural products. This type of structural relationship can be use in the approach to the design of new drugs. 

Epithelial cells are cells covering the body surface and bounding cavities, e.g. the gut or kidney tubules. They are bound together laterally by tight junctions to form sheets of cells and their apical and basolateral surfaces differ in composition and are kept apart by the tight junctions. They have the ability to transport solutes across the cell sheet from the apical surface. Of course, in culture a single epithelial cell cannot exhibit these properties but as the cells divide they form stable clusters of tightly associated cells and monolayers of such cells do show polarity. This is most easily achieved in serum-free, hormonally defined medium ( 5.8) when differentiated... 

Flow not only transports solutes into new regions of space, but it... 

If the incoming flow from a nozzle is at 90° to a planar metallic surface, then the flow impinges onto the metal surface and moves radially outward. The flow is redirected from being perpendicular to the planar surface to radial parallel to the surface. Mass transport solutions to this situation have been proposed and in general depend upon the ratio of vertical distance to nozzle diameter Hid) and the radial position on the plate (xld) as shown in Fig. 10. Chin and Tsang (4,17) showed that, for Hid between 0.2 and 6 and xld between 0.1 and 1,... 

Solution of the coupled mass-transport and reaction problem for arbitrary chemical kinetic rate laws is possible only by numerical methods. The problem is greatly simplified by decoupling the time dependence of mass-transport from that of chemical kinetics the mass-transport solutions rapidly relax to a pseudo steady state in view of the small dimensions of the system (19). The gas-phase diffusion problem may be solved parametrically in terms of the net flux into the drop. In the case of first-order or pseudo-first-order chemical kinetics an analytical solution to the problem of coupled aqueous-phase diffusion and reaction is available (19). These solutions, together with the interfacial boundary condition, specify the concentration profile of the reagent gas. In turn the extent of departure of the reaction rate from that corresponding to saturation may be determined. Finally criteria have been developed (17,19) by which it may be ascertained whether or not there is appreciable (e.g., 10%) limitation to the rate of reaction as a consequence of the finite rate of mass transport. These criteria are listed in Table 1. 

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Examine the model of passive flux through a membrane introduced in Section 3.2.4. How does the flux expression change if it is assumed that the transported solute (for example, oxygen) is consumed in the membrane ... 

The single most important effect of anti-diuretic hormone is to conserve body water, by reducing the loss of water in urine. In the absence of anti-diuretic hormone, the collecting ducts of the kidney are virtually impermeable to water. Anti-diuretic hormone stimulates water re-absorbtion through the insertion of water channels , or aquaporins (see Section 10.5), into the membranes of kidney tubules. Aquaporins transport solute-free water through tubular cells and back into blood, leading to a decrease in plasma osmolarity and an increased osmolarity of urine. 

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