As the application of nanofibers grows through a multitude of industries where reproducibility of product is either expected or required by validation (the exercise of proving with documented evidence any claims regarding the performance of a device, unit operation or product) and regulation [12-16]. Indeed all products should be sold with relevant documentation stating the product specification. This requires rigorous quality assurance testing of which reproducibility will be a key part. Therefore in order to assure nanofiber use is accessible and applicable for many markets the ability to control the production must be established. This work is particularly relevant to membrane operations which are Nature Precedings : hdl:10101/npre.2010.4524.1 : Posted 9 Jun 2010
commonly limited by poor membrane pore size uniformity and axial & radial diffusion which results in poor system dispersion yielding low utilisation of membrane capacity [17,18]. Previous studies have highlight the importance of designing a membrane with regards to the proposed system and operating conditions, optimizing the membrane pore size by balancing mass transfer against and fouling issues [19-21].