New investigations in the theory of hemodialyzer
Hemodialyzer is a device for blood purification by the diffusive and convective transport of small solutes and water through a permselective membrane from blood flowing along the membrane to dialysis fluid flowing on the other side of the membrane. We present briefly the one dimensional theory of solute and fluid transport in hemodialyzer (simplified but practical) formulated for flows of water solutions in blood and dialysis fluid channels and describe the new results for real blood flow with the separate description of flows of cellular and plasma components of blood and the exchange of solute and water across both cellular and dialyzer membranes. The numerical results are based on the experimental data for the transport parameters.