Membranes are usually used in the recent artificial kidney to purify the contaminated blood of renal failure patients. For example, in hemofiltration with artificial membrane, there are lots of problems to be solved. The comparison of hemofiltration between with artificial and glomerulus basement membrane may reveal these major problems.
In this report, performance evaluation with respect to both hydraulic and solute permeability was done by using Verniory's modified pore theory for GBM (glomerulus basement membrane) and artificial membranes already developed.
For membranes of plasmaseparator recently used in plasmapheresis, the comparison of hydraulic permeability was also carried out.
Glomerulus (biological module) and filter (artificial module) were evaluated from the various points, hydraulic and solute permeability consequently depended upon not only performance of membrane but also design and operating conditions of a module.