The strategies for the modelling of the passive mass transport through porous membranes: Applicability to transdermal delivery systems
[Display omitted] The paper concerns the modelling of the passive solute transport through porous membranes. A general scheme for the mass transport has been developed upon the mixed diffusion–advection-reaction model. The passive advection has been introduced as a certain simplification of the Navi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | International journal of pharmaceutics 2020-12, Vol.591, p.120017-120017, Article 120017 |
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The paper concerns the modelling of the passive solute transport through porous membranes. A general scheme for the mass transport has been developed upon the mixed diffusion–advection-reaction model. The passive advection has been introduced as a certain simplification of the Navier-Stokes problem, involving a pressure gradient-induced creeping flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid. Nine scenarios for the drug transport process have been tested versus two experimental datasets acquired earlier (photoacoustic depth-profiling and contact angle surface wettability techniques) for the characterization of bulk and interfacial processes in a model pharmaceutical system: the synthetic dodecanol-collodion porous membrane in contact with a photodegradable pigment dithranol. The scenarios considered include three mass transport models (the diffusion–advection-reaction, diffusion–advection and diffusion–reaction models) under three distinct types of the lower (the donor/acceptor interface) boundary conditions: the Dirichlet-type instantaneous source, the Dirichlet-type interface relaxation, and the Neumann-type concentration gradient. The results obtained indicate a considerable agreement between the experimental data and predictions of the diffusion–reaction and the general models for long times, however, some deviations were exhibited at the initial stages of the permeation process. It is considered, that the discrepancies originate from a specific penetrant behaviour at the interfaces, which violates boundary transfer schemes classically employed for the mass transport phenomena quantification. Moreover, an additional mixing process taking place close to the interface related to the liquid flow driven by the surface tension gradients (so-called classic and thermal Marangoni effect) could play a still underestimated role in the trans-interfacial mass transport. |
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ISSN: | 0378-5173 1873-3476 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.120017 |