Technology Study of Polypropylene Hollow Fiber Membranes-Like Artificial Lung Made by the Melt-Spinning and Cold-Stretching Method

Abstract:

Artificial lung also called as oxygenator which performs a function of exchanging O2 and removing CO2 from blood. Due to its good performance at the exchange area, oxygenation, etc, hollow fiber membranes have become the main research direction of artificial lung. Polypropylene (pp) hollow fiber membranes made by the melt-spinning and cold-stretching methods (MSCS) in this study. Through the research on the membrane manufacture process and technology optimization to prepare suitable membrane for artificially lung. The performance of membrane was affected by the melt-draw ratio and spinning temperature, annealing temperature, and the proportional relations of cold stretch with hot stretch. The results of the study show that improve melt-draw ratio, select the appropriate annealing conditions and the reasonable ratio of hot stretch with cold stretch can effectively increase the air flux of pp hollow fiber membrane.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 418-420)
• Pages: 26-29
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.418-420.26
• Online since: December 2011
• Authors: Xun Dao Liu, Lei Ni, Yu Feng Zhang, Zhen Liu, Xian She Feng, Lin Ji
• Keywords: Air Flux, Artificial Lung, Hollow Fiber Membranes, Membrane Technology, Polypropylene (PP)

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