An improvement of a previous study for estimating the permeate flux of holl
ow-fiber membrane ultrafiltration has been made. The improvement was achiev
ed by removing an unrealistic condition on the declination of permeate flux
near the fiber outlet and the requirement of estimating the solute diffusi
vity at a condition corresponding to that existing at the membrane surface.
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