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(a)

Venous pressure monitor

Air trap and air detector

Clean blood

Saline solution

Fresh dialysate

Dialyser

Patient

Used dialysate

Inflow pressure
monitor

Blood pump

Heparin pump
(to prevent clotting)

Arterial pressure
monitor

Removed blood
for cleaning

(b)

Figure 7.1.1 Examples of membrane separation
(a) Dialysis. Image by Yassine Mrabet (2008) from WikiCommons: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/File:Hemodialysis-en.svg
(b) Water desalination plant. Image by James Grellier (2010) from WikiCommons: http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_osmosis_desalination_plant.JPG