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Modeling acid-base transport in hemodialyzers

Pietribiasi Mauro, Leypoldt John K.

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2021

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Vol. 41, no. 3

1150--1161

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One important objective of the hemodialysis treatment is the neutralization of interdialytic acid generation by transport of bicarbonate and other buffer bases from dialysis fluid to the patient via the hemodialyzer. Quantification of solute transport in hemodialyzers, in general, employs the concept of dialysance, a parameter that is often constant for given flow conditions, smaller than both the blood and dialysate flow rates, and independent of the solute concentration difference between blood and dialysate. This approach has been applied to bicarbonate transport in hemodialyzers, but such an approach neglects the transport of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) between dialysate and plasma, chemical equilibrium between bicarbonate and CO2, and other acid-base chemical reactions within blood. We describe a novel, one-dimensional model of bicarbonate and CO2 transport in hemodialyzers. The model equations were solved numerically and fitted to published data to estimate mass transfer-area coefficients for the relevant chemical species. Base excess in blood was assumed constant in the hemodialyzer. Simulations were performed for a dialysate bicarbonate concentration of 32 mEq/L at constant blood and dialysate flow rates and different plasma bicarbonate concentrations at the inlet of the hemodialyzer, both with and without CO2 transport. In the latter case, the bicarbonate mass transfer-area coefficient was adjusted to achieve the same total carbon dioxide transport. Calculated dialysance for CO2 exceeded the blood flow rate due to its conversion from bicarbonate in the hemodialyzer, and all calculated dialysances varied with inlet plasma bicarbonate concentration. We concluded that acid-base transport in hemodialyzers cannot be universally characterized by dialysances that are always less than the blood flow rate and independent of the concentration difference between dialysate and blood.

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Experiments on additive desulphurisation by sodium bicarbonate in coal-fuel boiler

Kolat P., Cech B., Vrtek M., Tomasek D.

Chemical and Process Engineering

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2013

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Vol. 34, nr 1

77--86

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This paper describes experiments on the application of sodium bicarbonate desulphurisation in the coal-fuel boiler. The boiler has been in operation for several years now and it has refiably fulfilled the original assignment to reduce SO2 emissions from the value of 1200 -1500 mg/Nm3 to 400 mg/Nm3. Higher desulphurisation efficiency is determined only by the ratio of Na/S sorbent dosage. The resulting product of desulphurisation is stored together with fly ash in underground mines, and has no influence on the groundwater. Positive experience of the tests and boiler operation lies in higher reactivity of sodium and sulphur as compared with conventional methods based on limestone. Within the scope of the secondary measures of elimination of sulphur oxides in combustion products, an experimental dry-method desulphurisation of combustion products was performed by blasting an agent containing sodium bicarbonate NaHCO3 (99.6 %) into the flue ways before the electrostatic precipitator in a coal-fuel furnace with the steam output of 220 t/h.

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Pochodzenie mineralnych wód chlorkowo-sodowych w rejonie Rzeszowa w świetle badań izotopowych(δ18O i δD, δ13C, δ37CL) i chemicznych

Baran A., Pelc A., Chmiel S., Hałas S.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2012

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Vol. 60, nr 12

657–-664

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Several decades ago during exploration for additional resources of tap water a saline water deposit (Cl-Na, J, Fe, B type) has been discovered in the area of Rzeszów hospital park. Nowadays this water is exploited for balneological purposes. In the frame-work of this study for the first time the following stable isotopes: (δ18 i δD, δ13C, δ37Cl) and radiocarbon were determined in order to elucidate the origin of water, its mineralization and quality. Oxygen and hydrogen isotope data leads to conclusion that these waters were formed in a warm pre-Pleistocene period or they are mixture of Miocene seawater with Pleistocene infiltration waters. Carbon isotopic composition (b13= –8.65‰) of bicarbonate is characteristic for deep pore waters occurring in sedimentary rocks, whereas distinctly positive and negative δ37 Cl value rather excludes origin of chlorine ion from an open sea basin. Absence of radiocarbon (in Rzeszów well) indicates no admixture of recent infiltration waters, hence these waters are well preserved from anthropogenic pollution. This is further confirmed by very low concentration of nitrate.