INFLUENCE OF THE DIRECTION OF FLOWS ON THE BASIC TECHNICAL 
CHARACTERISTICS OF MEMBRANE APPARATUSES WITH CAPILLARIES 
PERMEABLE TO HYDROGEN

L. L. Murav'ev

UDC 621.593.001.24

A system of differential equations and boundary conditions 
which describes the distribution of the pressure and the flow rate 
of hydrogen inside a hydrogen-permeable capillary with a closed end 
is obtained. The algorithm of solution is given. It is shown that 
the direction of flows (concurrent flow-counterflow) in the high-pressure 
cavity exerts no substantial influence on the technical characteristics 
of the membrane apparatus. The influence of the design parameters 
of the capillaries on the basic characteristics of operation of the 
apparatus is investigated.

Institute of Machine Science, Ural Branch of the Russian 
Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia; email: ges@imach.uran.ru. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 
53-57, July-August, 2002. Original article submitted June 
6, 2001; revision submitted November 26, 2001.

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