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Textbook (Source) : Membrane Technology and applications (Richard W. Baker, John Wiley & Sons, 2 nd Ed)

Membrane Processes

 Medical applications of membranes

• Hollow fiber artificial kidney dialyser

- kidney failure – should remove toxic metabolites from blood

- (1945) cellophane dialysis membranes

- hollow fiber can provide huge membrane area

- artificial lung

Hollow fiber artificial kidney dialyser