RESISTANCE EFFECT OF ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER ON LIQUID FLOW IN MICROCHANNEL

Poisson-Boltzmann equation for EDL （electric double layer） and Navier- Stokes equation for liquid flows were numerically solved to investigate resistance effect of electric double layer on liquid flow in microchannel. The dimension analysis indicates that the resistance effect of electric double layer can be estimated by an electric resistance number, which is proportional to the square of the liquid dielectric constant and the solid surface zeta potential, and inverse-proportional to the liquid dynamic viscosity, electric conductivity and the square of the channel width. An ＂electric current density balancing＂ （ECDB） condition was proposed to evaluate the flow-induced streaming potential, instead of conventional ＂electric current balancing＂ （ECB） condition which may induce spurious local backflow in neighborhood of the solid wall of the microchannel. The numerical results of the flow rate loss ratio and velocity profile are also given to demonstrate the resistance effect of electric double layer in microchannel.

Structures of sodium vanadate solution under different conditions

Combined with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy（FTIR） analysis of sodium vanadate solution,the relationship between conductivity and structure was investigated by measuring the electric conductivity of the solution under different alkali concentrations and molar ratios of NaOH to V2O5. Results suggest that the polymerization vanadium acid radical ions gradually transform into monomer with the solution diluting. When the solution is diluted to a certain extent,only the vanadium acid radical ion with V-OH chemical bond exists in the solution. At NaOH concentration of below 105.21 g·L^（-1）,the vanadate anions mainly exist in the form of vanadium acid radical ion with V-OH chemical bond and the ion transference number is approximately from 0.58 to 0.82. In the medium NaOH concentration range of 105.21-117.03 g·L^（-1）, the vanadate anions mostly exist in the form of vanadium acid radical ion with V-OH and V-O-V chemical bonds and the ion transference number is approximately 3.29. At NaOH concentration of above 117.03 g·L^（-1）, vanadate anions exist in the form of vanadium acid radical ion with V-OH and V-O-V chemical bonds.